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  Multimedia Features Lebowskifest celebrates the Dude, bowling and, most importantly, drinking White Russians.  ExcerptComic strips excerpted from Alison Bechdel’s new anthology. More Good Stuff1. House has got nothing on these MDs. 2. How hard is it to eat organic all the time? One doc finds out. 3. From sci-fi to Swedish research: body swapping is real. 4. In L.A., a “meltdown of marionettes.” 5. Working the night shift, as a window decorator. Related Sections on NYTimes.com | DRINKING Bless These Bitters  Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times A MOMENT OF REVERENCE John deBari, a bartender at PDT in the East Village, shows his homemade chocolate syrup to appreciative customers.
Do you make your own grenadine, or think nothing of traveling across boroughs for the perfect ice? If so, you’re a cocktail geek, which Jonathan Miles defines as “one of a growing legion of amateur connoisseurs who have turned recherché cocktails — whether mixed at home or sought out in bars and restaurants — into a lifestyle, or, to hear some tell it, a religion.” Practice at Tailor, with a the Blood and Sand “with foamy orange juice stabilized by Versa Whip and xanthum gum;” the Flatiron Lounge and the Clover Club in Brooklyn for punch; and Pegu Club with an Earl Grey MarTEAni. Amen. “A Brotherhood Formed With Cocktails and Ice,” by Jonathan Miles “Let 100 (O.K., 8) Bartending Philosophies Bloom,” by Oliver Schwaner-Albright
SHOPPING Shake It Like a Polaroid And if you are a cocktail geek — or are lucky enough to know one — here’s the perfect gift: Metrokane’s innovative new cocktail shaker. “It has a flip-top lid that snaps shut for shaking and can easily be opened to pour a drink through a strainer grid,” writes Florence Fabricant. Wrap it with a few recipes and a bottle of aromatic Spruce Gin and drink in the thanks. “To Shake Up the Bartender on Your List,” by Florence Fabricant FILM Ashes to Ashes, Milk to Milk
The German filmmaker Hartmut Bitomsky “collects dust with scholarly thoroughness and poetic zeal,” writes A. O. Scott. His new documentary about the stuff is “both an essay and an exposé, a meditation on the philosophical implications of dust,” Mr. Scott writes, “and an analysis of its place in the physical world. Which is, of course, everywhere.” But in particular, at the Film Forum. Meanwhile, over at MoMA, Gus Van Sant will introduce his best-of-list-dominating film “Milk.” “Awe, Revulsion and Affection for Those Particles Unto Which Thou Shalt Return,” by A.O. Scott MUSIC Crash, Bang, Boom, Etc. Japanese art-metal or Southern hip-hop? For the former, head to the Music Hall of Williamsburg to see Boris. The trio’s latest album, “Smile,” is “more temperate and melodic than its predecessors,” which mostly sounded like “crashing a compact car into a concrete wall,” writes Amanda Petrusich, who means that in a good way. The latter is T. I. , the chart-topping rapper who brings his smooth style and blustery rhymes to the Hammerstein Ballroom. NIGHTLIFE Karaoke or Open Mike?
Winnie’s has lost its underground charm, and those rent-a-room places are always too crowded. Anyway true karaoke-heads want live back-up — from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. The local rockers will headline a karaoke party at Studio B tonight, playing their own stuff and then doing their best “Jessie’s Girl” for you. Andrew W.K. hosts.
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