Rock is dead. It’s a cry that’s been repeated so many times it’s lost its meaning, become a caricature of its own weighty intent and earnest grievousness. Read more...

With instruments poised and fingers itching in anticipation, the members of the Latin Jazz Ensemble eagerly wait for their director Bobby Rodriguez to signal to them, inviting them to join the groove. Read more...

Protests are a girl’s best friend. After a groundswell of public demand, FOX Studios re-released Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge!” for weekly midnight screenings at the Mann Festival Theater. Read more...

The fusion of musical styles has always come easy for Simon Shaheen. The Arabic multi-instrumentalist started his musical career at the age of five, when he picked up both the oud and the violin. Read more...

Students whose appetites for anti-war protest were not whetted by Wednesday’s walk-out will have the opportunity to shout out their best stanzas at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz tonight. Read more...

A haphazard story of fate with turns of event more freakish than a circus sideshow, Theater Underground’s production of “Raised in Captivity” will be let loose onto the stage this weekend at Northwest Campus Auditorium. Read more...

Two stories that shocked the world ““ one about a repressed boy transforming into a cockroach, another about incestuous relationships ““ have become educational lessons for Master of Fine Arts students; and for the rest of us, they’re opportunities for entertainment. Read more...