Stevie Wonder “A Time to Love” Universal Motown Group After 10 years without a new album, many artists would be calling it quits. Turns out Stevie Wonder was just biding his time. Read more...

"Paradise Now" Directed by Hany Abu-Assad Warner Independent Pictures Three men stand on a grassy hill arguing about the evenness of a newly installed car bumper. 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...

To keynote speaker Malcolm Baker, Friday’s UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium is exciting. It’s not because in one day, it will feature nine presentations by art history graduate students from across the country. Read more...

At the age of 63, rock “˜n’ roll legend John Cale wants to get funky. The former Velvet Underground creative force has been many things throughout his long career: a child prodigy on classical piano and viola who moved to New York at the age of 21 with the help of composer Aaron Copland; an avant-garde minimalist who collaborated with John Cage; and a violent punk rocker who once cut off a live chicken’s head on stage and threw it into the audience. Read more...