Silver Jews “Tanglewood Numbers” Drag City Records After a bout with depression and a suicide attempt, David Berman is back with the Silver Jews’ fifth full-length album, “Tanglewood Numbers,” and this time he won’t take backstage as a Pavement-goes-Nashville act. Read more...

After having trouble adapting its multi-layered music to the live setting, Metric wanted its new album to be something it could perform with confidence for its audiences. Read more...

Jarhead Directed by Sam Mendes Universal Pictures “Jarhead” is a disappointing film, and that actually might be the best thing it has going for it. Based on the best-selling memoirs of former U.S. Read more...

When it comes to her music, singer Mary Black has never strayed far from her Irish roots. Black, who has outsold both U2 and Sinead O’Connor in their native Ireland, will take the stage with other Irish female vocalists in a UCLA Live performance of the Celtic music featured on the successful “A Woman’s Heart” compilation albums in Royce Hall tonight at 8. Read more...

People have long associated Los Angeles with Hollywood and major studio films. But for David E. James, that isn’t enough. The author and USC film professor believes the city is getting left out of the credits when it comes to its contributions to avant-garde cinema, saying that many view San Francisco and New York as the centers of American experimental and minor cinema. Read more...

Halloween has become one of my favorite holidays since I came to UCLA. There’s no mandatory family dinners, like during Thanksgiving and Easter. Unlike Christmas parties, with me pretending I remember family friends I haven’t seen since I was 2, these parties involve people my age. Read more...

From Maripat Donovan and Vicki Quade’s “Late Night Catechism” to David Gorman’s “Googlewhack!” the challenges of a one-man show ““ namely, attempting to hold the audience’s attention through the duration of the performance ““ can be intimidating. Read more...