Dining and entertainment suggestions that might fly under your radar.

What the Pho?

If you've never had Vietnamese cuisine, you're missing something unique. With Ann Le's The Little Saigon Cookbook, you'll not only learn easy recipes to impress your friends, but trivia about the strip of Bolsa Avenue in Westminster that's home to the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.

Have a hoe-down!

Although she’s still torching and twanging with new tunes, k.d. lang offers an irresistible look back at her acclaimed cow-punk career on the CD retrospective Tarnation.

Best War Coverage Online

For detailed reporting of the undercovered fatwa against our brothers in Iran and Iraq, go to direland.typepad.com. No one beats the research and passion of longtime gay journalist Doug Ireland.

Best Eats

Melrose On Fire Fish Grill Mediterranean, 707 Stanley Ave., L.A. (323) 655-7777. Fantastic and fresh grilled fish, generous portions, and because it’s glatt kosher, more black hats than La Brea Blvd. on a Saturday afternoon. Don’t be put off—it’s for everybody. Not cheap, but worth it.

You Better Shape Up

Get fit with Plitt, Greg Plitt. The hunky cover model of countless fitness magazine (and former Army ranger) has a new workout DVD, Greg Plitt Biceps Triceps & Abs that will change your workout regimine. For more information, visit www.iconmen.com.

Before You Turn In

Listen to this: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Lucy Lawless, Eric McCormick, and Teri Hatcher are among the actors who offer vocals on the sleepytime CD Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars. Proceeds go to Music Matters, the L.A. Philharmonic’s educational program.

Stars crossed

Third Rock from the Sun’s French Stewart and Less Than Perfect’s Sara Rue play two misfits who learn that arguable truth about love conquering all in the new musical comedy Little Egypt playing through June 11 at Matrix Theatre, 7657 Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood. 

He Be Skillin’

Gosh! With his tight 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped, Napoleon Dynamite was the biggest sleeper hit comedy in recent memory. Now the man with the moves is back in a two-disc reissue subtitled Like, The Best Special Edition Ever and loaded with new commentaries, audition tapes, making-of featurettes, and more. Sweet!