1. The Rock & Roll Circus opens tonight in the Big Apple Circus tent at Lincoln Center (62nd Street and Columbus Avenue) with Japanther, The Pharmacy, Voxhaul Broadcast and The So So Glos and continues tomorrow night with Ariel Pink, Amazing Baby, Saint Motel and Nick Zinner. Doors open at 7 p.m. both nights and the shows start at 8, with free admission tonight and tickets starting at $25 for January 4.
2. Why is our "normal" temperature 98.6 degrees?
3. Watch the video of artist Olek covering the Wall Street bull on Christmas Eve.
4. The 11 most anticipated albums of 2011, 25 hit songs from 2010 mashed into five minutes and 34 seconds and the L.A. Times' "faces to watch" in music during 2011.
5. UK singer Ben Drew (aka Plan B) is playing the Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey Street) next Tuesday, January 11.
6. Check out these women laughing alone with salad.
