Two hundred fifty years ago, one of the greatest figures in the history of Western civilization was born. UCLA Live and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra have plans to celebrate that birth in a way unlike anything this country has seen. Read more...

Every year, the Sundance Film Festival inadvertently determines the fate of independent film in the U.S. more than any other cinematic event. More selective than a black-tie mixer or Harvard Law, it embodies a mysterious aura, a quality of myth, the stuff of legend. Read more...

As a longtime Daily Bruin contributor and former arts and entertainment editor, I never clash with the editorial decisions made in the A&E section. Of course, whenever writers deal in absolutes, they’re only setting themselves up for contradiction. Read more...

Her father was an artist, and they had sat together on her bed’s edge flipping through an old book of his. His art was mostly sculptures, these macabre human heads screaming out with their teeth shattered. Read more...

She knelt down on the white tiled floor of her son’s bathroom and picked up a small black pin, crimped on one side, flat on the other, a girl’s hairpin. Read more...

There is possibly no greater enigma in the modern world than Michael Jackson. For over 30 years, he has demonstrated a remarkably consistent ability to entertain, mesmerize and perplex. Read more...

We Are Scientists “With Love and Squalor” Virgin Records It looks like rock ‘n’ roll is dead. Again. SPIN Magazine’s latest issue named The Killers as the 2005 band of the year, the equivalent of calling Nickelback the next Nirvana or Radiohead jamming with Coldplay. Read more...