Imagine Miles Davis playing at Schoenberg, Ernest Hemingway reading his work at Royce, or Michelangelo presenting one of his masterpieces at the Sculpture Garden, and one gets the idea. Read more...

Last weekend, getting into my venue of choice for Saturday night was a lot harder than I was expecting. It involved waiting in a line that wrapped around the building for over an hour. Read more...

In the middle of “Open Window,” Susan, a psychology graduate student, quotes several lines from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”: “I pitied thee, / Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour / One thing or other: When thou didst not … know thine own meaning … I endow’d thy purposes / With words that made them known.” Such is the premise for the Pasadena Playhouse’s “Open Window,” a production that partners with Deaf West Theater to present an entirely deaf cast that communicates almost exclusively in sign language throughout the production. Read more...

What a harsh few weeks this has been. First, my beloved Houston Astros, in the most offensively inept performance I’ve ever seen, treated home plate as though it were covered with bird flu during the World Series. Read more...

There are some bands who can do no wrong. Until recently, it appeared that Toronto collective Broken Social Scene was one of them. The band started as a side project, releasing the ambient “Feel Good Lost” in 2001 and became a musical force to be reckoned with the masterful “You Forgot It In People” in 2002. Read more...

TV show parties on Thursday nights are so 1990s. A decade ago people had to make sure they didn’t miss their favorite show when it came on TV so that they wouldn’t be left out of conversations discussing what the characters said or did, or be confused during the next week’s episode. Read more...

Tradition suggests that on a first wedding anniversary a couple should celebrate with the exchange of paper goods. But World Arts and Cultures master’s candidate Nehara Kalev and spouse C. Read more...