This is definitely not your parents’ Woody Allen film. With “Match Point,” the latest offering from the filmmaker, Allen has departed from many of the conventions of his earlier work. Read more...

Slowly, streams of blood-red dye begin to appear in a river, representing the bloodshed of World War II. The redness then transforms into long, flowing pieces of beautiful, red kimono cloth. Read more...

Of the 18, mostly Chinese, artists whose work is being featured this week in a Kerckhoff Art Gallery exhibit titled “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance,” only one currently resides in China. Read more...

This week, instead of my usual ramblings on things that get on my nerves, you get something different. The dB Magazine editors and everyone in the music section submitted their top ten albums of the year lists, and an overall top ten was created using some crazy formula involving a lot of numbers that I could never hope to understand. Read more...

For their annual December concert, the UCLA choral groups are ditching their usual program of formal, classical pieces for a more accessible and festive one. On Dec. Read more...

“Brokeback Mountain” Directed by Ang Lee Focus Features Gay cowboys. Yes, that is the premise of “Brokeback Mountain,” Ang Lee’s new film about the solitude and anguish felt by victims of desperate isolation in a suddenly changing world. Read more...

“The Family Stone” Directed by Thomas Bezucha 20th Century Fox The members of the eponymous family of “The Family Stone” fit liberal stereotypes to a T, though they may stop short of being the “left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers” described in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall.” A staple of almost every holiday movie is the dysfunctional family, but few have been as unbelievable as this one, led by “Annie Hall” co-star Diane Keaton. Read more...