Although Massoud Amir Behrani (Sir Ben Kingsley), one of the main characters in “House of Sand and Fog,” and director/screenwriter Vadim Perelman have different backgrounds, they both pursue the same thing. Read more...

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A Mother’s Journey: Photographs from Orissa, India, by Tara Colburn Fowler Museum Dec. 7 to Feb. 29 Colburn set out on a journey to India to find her son, who had joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, but came back with a wealth of amazing photographs from rarely viewed parts of rural India. Read more...

Vans Off The Wall Tour Henry Fonda Theater Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. Death By Stereo, The Suicide Machines, T.S.O.L., Avenged Sevenfold, The Unseen, and Western Waste perform for those of you who have been able to uphold the punk rock high school dream or at least who can still listen to it. Read more...

There might not be any us v. them mentality brewing between theater students and professors and their film counterparts, but inhabitants of Macgowan Hall (home of the theater department) and Melnitz Hall (home of film and television) aren’t exactly sending each other holiday greeting cards either. Read more...

While already successful, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” has some ironing to be done ““ with or without “fashion savant” Carson Kressley’s help. In fact, as the series began its second season Tuesday on Bravo, Jai Rodriguez, the “culture vulture” of the show’s “Fab Five” (the five gay men who make over a different straight man each episode) acknowledges that sometimes he still doesn’t have a clear view of what to do with the straight men. Read more...

Directing episodes of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” may seem like a difficult job, but for UCLA professor Becky Smith, it came naturally. “Just coincidentally, I’ve directed a lot of the recent gay programming,” said Smith, who chairs the UCLA School of Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media’s undergraduate film program and also teaches graduate courses in film production. Read more...