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This shopping season, the daunting decision of which shirt to buy has greater significance than usual. With the October launch of a nationwide HIV/AIDS awareness and aid campaign called (RED), shopping has taken on a new purpose. Read more...

What’s more basic than a pair of jeans and as necessary as a true love? A condom, of course. In honor of World AIDS Day and the 25th anniversary of the identification of AIDS virus at UCLA, Fowler museum is proud to present “Dress up Against AIDS: Condom Couture” by Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini. Read more...

“The Nativity Story” Director Catherine Hardwicke New Line Cinema “The Nativity Story” is an exercise in verisimilitude and historical perfection. Each costume, each dirty fingernail, and each Middle Eastern city is created with rigorous care. Read more...

He’s been called the grand master of jazz guitar by Dizzy Gillespie and the greatest guitarist in the world by B.B. King. He was Duke Ellington’s favorite. Read more...

leiti hsu She’s seen it all. Restaurateur and chef Suzanne Goin encountered the refrigerator that “stank like bloody hell” in a restaurant kitchen in southwest France. Read more...

KENNY BURRELL’S 75TH Saturday, 8 p.m. Royce Hall, $15 Those who think that jazz music died out alongside Ellington, Coltrane, Davis and Gillespie ought to take another look closer to home. Read more...