Moving Units is one of the hardest working bands in Los Angeles right now, touring and playing shows at a break-neck pace while putting the finishing touches on their first full-length album. Read more...

Girl meets boy, boy meets another girl, girl kills new girl ““ all choreographed into an eight-minute dance performance set to upbeat music. The 14-member Hindi Film Dance Team wrote and choreographed this dance, which will be performed as part of UCLA Fowler Museum’s “Family Festival: India!” The festival also will feature a print-making workshop, henna tattooing and performances by the Nupoor Spiritual Dance Company, blue13 Dance Company and the UCLA Bhangra Team. Read more...

In a bold attempt to revive the spirit of jazz music, the Student Committee for the Arts is launching the third of four performances in its Jazz at the Grand series tonight in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon. Read more...

As those familiar pointy white tents were being pitched all over campus this week in preparation for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I couldn’t help but get to thinking about how we deal with literature here at the dB Magazine. Read more...

For a composing musician, genre can be a sensitive subject. Take ethnomusicology graduate student Martha Mavroidi, whose Balkan jazz ensemble will perform tonight at the Fowler Museum. Read more...

If there’s one thing that Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” saga has taught us (other than that squishing someone’s eyeball between your toes is a little creepy), it’s that with the right music a good film can become a great one. Read more...

For most 10-year-olds, riding bikes and long division are the most important things in the world. But for fifth-grader Dakota Fanning, reading scripts and memorizing lines is what occupies her time. Read more...