Tonight at Biscuits and Blues (401 Mason St.), legendary New Orleans pianist, Henry Butler performs solo piano, combining the classical and jazz elements he absorbed at Louisiana School for the Blind and Southern University with the gospel, blues and R&B sounds he heard growing up in New Orleans. (8pm & 10pm shows) Saturday Grab a boombox and head on over to Mission Dolores Park (18th and Dolores) for Unsilent Night 2006, composer Phil Kline’s annual......

Making jokes about the President is pretty easy. It's even easier to make fun of him these days what with his 38% approval rating and the Republicans sudden discovery that he's not wearing any clothes. In fact, it's so easy to do it now that there's an element of kicking a man when he's down to it. Which makes us feel kind of guilty about it. Oh, wait. Check that. You can never make enough fun of the President. This Saturday night is the The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this year in an attempt to raise money to defeat him. Obviously, it being the "second annual" means that the first one didn’t succeed. While saying that it's yet one more attempt to send our President back to Crawford might be a joke, the money for the show will go to the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors' (CCCO) "Military Out of Our Schools Program," those people trying to prevent military recruiters out of possibly excercising their freedom of choice and choosing the military. Comedians include Bill Santiago, Diane Amos, Scott Blakeman, Lisa Geduldig, Alana Devich, Ross Turner, and Aundre the Wonderwoman (who according to the press release is an Anti-death penalty advocate by day; comic by night-- those death penalty activists are always a hoot.) ...

Ha! Hee! Yeah, we need a laugh. Who doesn't? And we don't mean the normal April Fool's Day prankish jokes either. We want belly laughs. So we're looking towards the 7th Annual Funny Girlz show tomorrow night. "A Smorgasbord of Women's Humor" sounds like it might be just the ticket to stave off any mid-spring malaise. Featuring comics Cathy Ladman, Shann Carr, Carla Clayy, Gretchen Rootes, Alana Devich (she has a blog!), Lisa Geduldig,......

Being Jewish, we made our peace with not celebrating the holidays a long time ago. Frankly, it’s kind of fun to be around the city during Christmas- there’s nobody around and it’s all sorts of peacefull and quiet. Best part of the holidays is that since nobody is around, if you feel like not wanting to do anything for three days other than lie around in your underwear eating nachos and watching football (or,......