-- Using the garbage and junk-drawer debris from oh-my-God real-life celebrities (!), crafty artist Jason Mercier creates jaw-dropping portraits of A- through D-list notables, which range from Parker Posey to Heidi Fleiss. Celebrity Junk Drawer opens tonight starting at 9 p.m. at 111 Minna Galley (at Second St.); admission is free. -- Dance, get trashed, shove something up your nose in the bathroom, shove something up, um, somewhere elsewhere in the bathroom, have a......

The baseball season is long. Very long. And because it's so long, it often takes awhile to get fully into it. Sometimes, like the 2000-2003 seasons, you're into the season from the get go. Other times, like the past two seasons, you can never quite get into it, turned off by mediocrity and losing. And sometimes, like this season, you don't really care that much and then, blammo, something happens to spark your interest and then manic depression catches the soul. It's like reading a long book that you're only kind of mildly interested in and then, one day, you put the book down and realize you can't wait to pick the book up again. Or like in Revenge of the Sith where you're kind of bored and once more irritated with Lucas until the last hour or so when the Jedi start getting wiped out and all of a sudden you wake up and start thinking "My God, here's the Star Wars movie I've sat through seven hours or so of crap to get to." ...