After seven different releases of its debut album, you’d think orchestral country-folk group Hem would have given up on music. But the band hasn’t, and a few false starts only paved the way for its current prolificacy. Read more...

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The Court of Sciences, a location typically associated with science and math, catered to the fine arts this weekend as an inundation of artistic activity drew crowds to ArtsDay LA on Saturday. Read more...

Regina Spektor has the sort of charm so irresistible that it would make Audrey Tautou blush. Born in Russia and raised in the Bronx, Spektor is scheduled to perform Tuesday at the El Rey Theatre. Read more...

For fans of television, mid-May is both an extremely exciting and potentially harrowing time of year. On one hand, shows are delivering exciting season-ending arcs. On the other, mid-May is also the time that networks put together their schedules for the next television season. Read more...

Bisexual, black, woman ““ each classification fights to hold her back. But Taisha Paggett keeps walking, paving her own path. She has somehow managed to put one foot in front of the other in a series of steps that has enabled her to conquer the stage. Read more...

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Warner Bros. True to its theme of water as a destructive force, Wolfgang Petersen’s “Poseidon” exists in something of a whirlpool of irony. Read more...