At the restaurant Tangier on the evening of Feb. 10, waitresses will serve plates of gourmet food to a small and relaxed group of people who will be listening to a live musical performance among candles, comfortable couches and exotic ornaments spread throughout the room. Read more...

A Friday or Saturday evening in Los Angeles boasts an overwhelming array of entertainment options for college students. Rarely considered and often written off as boring or expensive is the choice to start the night off with a trip to the theater. Read more...

It wouldn’t surprise me if “Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World” has left every theater in the L.A. area by the time you finish reading this sentence. Read more...

The love between a suicidal 20-year-old man and a septuagenarian woman doesn’t seem like it would make for one of L.A.’s most popular Valentine’s Day movies. Read more...

Missy flinches as she receives the question. The customer, a man wearing a suit with a red tie who looks like he went to college, can’t see the cafe menu in huge letters right in front of him. Read more...

Beth Orton “Comfort of Strangers” Astralwerks Records In 1996, Beth Orton was canonized into the genre of trip-hop with her debut “Trailer Park,” which established her as the woman who brought folk-rock sensibility to the burgeoning electronic generation. Read more...

You can tell a lot about a party, or party-goers for that matter, by checking out the food table. One of my good friends from high school best summed up this idea when we were in the middle of a fight over how much food to buy for a party we were hosting together. Read more...