1. Hot tip for Spring Break: Take the three-night Bruise Cruise onFebruary 25. Departing from Miami to Nassau and back, this high-seasadventure includes live music from Vivian Girls, Black Lips, SurferBlood, Thee Oh Sees and more. Go here to sign up.

2. Treehugger reports that Nashville musician Matt Glassmeyer built a new roof on his porch using 350 vinyl records.

3. Beck is hosting the opening of "Temptation To Be Good," anexhibition of new works by Mercedes Helnwein on Saturday, November 13,8 to 11 p.m., at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery (170 S. La Brea Avenue) inLos Angeles.

4. Craigslist and crowd sourcing: How the Internet reflects the good and bad in human nature.

5. DJ/producer/screenplay writer Arthur Baker is in town from Londonand he's in a "reunion" mood.  There's a little get together tonight,November 9, at subMercer (147 Mercer Street) for anybody that remembersStreetwise and Criminal Records or Shakedown Studio.

6. Somebody launched a surface-to-air missile 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles yesterday but, so far, it's a mystery () as to who did it or why.

7. The science behind why we love ice cream. [WSJ]