Although it upset him, Charlie Chaplin felt he had to cut the opening scene of his 1931 film “City Lights.” In it, Chaplin’s Tramp finds a stick stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, and spends almost seven minutes of screen time trying to remove it, running into humorous challenges along the way. Read more...

Belle and Sebastian “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” Rough Trade In his diary for the liner notes of its new album, “Dear Catastrophe Waitress,” Belle and Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch rather awkwardly uses the word “indie” to describe the feeling of his native Glasgow in the summer. Read more...

Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar comes from a family that has been dhrupad vocalists for four and half centuries. Dhrupad is the oldest form of Indian classical music, an art form that was once reserved for the inner temple of the king’s courts and has made a public debut only recently. Read more...

It’s not the first time tango’s been twisted, nor is it likely to be the last. Once upon a time a man by the name of Astor Piazzolla, tango’s rough equivalent to jazz’s Duke Ellington, took the treasured Argentinian dance music and elevated it to the level of classical music. Read more...

UCLA’s Music of Brazil ensemble is finally official. Throughout last year, the ensemble had met weekly under the direction of Latin American Studies M.A. graduate student Beto Gonzalez to practice Brazilian music as an informal group. Read more...

“The Graduate” The Wilshire Theatre Stepping into the role originated by Anne Bancroft in Mike Nichols’ groundbreaking 1967 film, which was brassily reimagined by Kathleen Turner on Broadway, Jerry Hall makes a sultry, sassy Los Angeles debut as Mrs. Read more...

Edward Braff wants to kill himself. He figures his life can’t get any worse, so he rigs up a noose, sticks his neck in it and hangs. Read more...