It’s not just any mall. Sure, the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade has more than its fair share of overpriced bookstores, blindingly lit window fronts filled with back-to-school halter-top specials, and an entire army of hairsprayed preteens ready at a second’s notice to shoot up that flirtatious right eyebrow. But the mall also has something that lures even the broke, the anti-social and occasionally, the police, night after night, mainly between the hours of 6 to 10 p.m. Read more...

Starting off the new Geffen Playhouse season is Stephen Jeffreys’ “I Just Stopped By to See the Man,” a three-person play about the power of the blues. Read more...

UCLA is undeniably one of the most diverse and dynamic college campuses in the country. It plays host to Nobel Prize-winning professors, Division I sports teams, a happening social scene and even an on-campus museum ““ the last being the least obvious. Read more...

The lights go down, the curtain goes up, and for the next few hours you are transported out of your ordinary life. The theater can be a magical, even life-changing experience. Read more...

David Roussève’s work ethic as a performance artist is synonymous with his mission as the newly appointed chair of UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures . Read more...

For Violaine Corradi, the composer behind Cirque du Soleil’s latest production to stop in Los Angeles, “Varekai,” the challenge of creating original music for a Cirque show means more than just finding the right notes. Read more...

What award doesn’t Clint Eastwood deserve? He’s been an Oscar-winning director, one of the most recognizable actors in films, a producer, a military man, a lumberjack and the mayor of Carmel, a small California town. Read more...