There’s still room for pop music in underground rock ‘n’ roll. Just ask Kevin Barnes, the lead singer of Of Montreal. The 9-year-old indie-pop band, which will be playing at the Ex Plex on Feb. Read more...

Sin, ostracism, slapstick comedy, greed and suicide all mixed together sound to some people like the ideal soap opera scenario. To UCLA’s opera department, it’s the perfect characterization for this year’s annual winter quarter performance. Read more...

Presumptuous as it may be, allow me to sum up this year’s Oscar nominations in just one word: boring. In conversations I had with the four pop-culture encyclopedias that run the arts and entertainment section ““ or, as I like to call them, the “Four Hipsters of the Apocalypse” ““ I heard almost every major nominee predicted well before the nominations were announced Tuesday. Read more...

A bright neon sign lights a lone box-office window. Fliers are scattered around the pavement. Photos and movie posters adorn the outside walls. A friendly, almost familiar face tears a ticket and another, only a few steps away, invites you to buy a drink. Read more...

A man who looks Middle Eastern walks into the salon Sunday afternoon with his pretty 9-year-old daughter. Amalia sits him down and begins to chat with him and trim his graying hair. Read more...

I. pre-morning, a prologue the bag in my hand splatters, the bottle breaks. I wait for the familiar aroma of whiskey to wind its way up, rise and I know that it will lie there, an irregular pool, hoping never to be mopped. Read more...

Every January, a growing horde ventures into the ice and snow of Salt Lake City and beyond, in hopes of catching sight of the glitterati meant to be roaming the streets like regular folk. Read more...