I love Katie Holmes, but she’ll always be Joey Potter, the sweet, preternaturally pretty girl next door who was forever torn between Dawson and Pacey. Holmes, fearing that she would be pigeonholed by “Dawson’s Creek,” has long sought to challenge her good-girl persona by taking on edgier roles in films like “Disturbing Behavior,” “Go” and “The Gift.” In “Pieces of April,” Holmes takes perhaps her biggest leap of all. Read more...

With mainstream music becoming increasingly homogenized, the appeal of classical music is sometimes lost among today’s youth. By offering a range of both classical and contemporary chamber pieces, performers of tonight’s chambermusic@ucla show hope to prove their music can be just as rewarding. Read more...

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...

Correction appended Huddled in a small circle outside a meeting room on the 2nd floor of Ackerman Student Union are about eight or nine UCLA students. 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...