“Big Fish” Ackerman Grand Ballroom April 8-9, 7 and 9:30 p.m. If you missed Tim Burton’s lesson in fantasy filmmaking when it was competing with Oscar films in December, you can catch it now. Read more...

Slime isn’t the only thing green about Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. The 17th annual awards show, held at Pauley Pavillion on Saturday, did more than draw a few A-list celebs and 50,000 screaming kids: It raised a lot of money. Read more...

Royce Hall fell silent last Wednesday night during the “Organica” concert as the first refrains of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” bellowed from an unseen source. On a large screen images flashed of incongruous L.A. Read more...

Posters seem to be the primary wall decoration for people ages 15 to 25. Thus, college students flip through dozens of cumbersome albums in search of the perfect poster to legitimize their existence … or just make themselves look cool. Read more...

Franz Ferdinand The Cooperage Tuesday 8 p.m. At last, someone is surpassing the boundaries of garage rock, and they come from Scotland. Franz Ferdinand maintains what was good about the revival in the first place, but hikes it up a notch with its quirky attitude and arty personality. Read more...

The main goal of a college education, if the majority of my professors are to be believed, is to learn to think critically about as wide a variety of issues as possible. Read more...

After the conquest of India by the British Empire in 1857, India’s representation in the Western world had been forever changed. The photographs displayed in the UCLA Fowler Museum’s deeply historical new exhibition “Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900″ explore how the portrayal of a vast nation has been packaged and sold. Read more...