Joan Baez, one of the most prominent female folk singers since the 1960s, will perform at Royce Hall tonight, treating students to a voice that has brought sweet chills to listeners for over forty years. Read more...

The experimental rock band Tortoise will be performing at the Henry Fonda Theatre tomorrow night for one of only four shows on the West Coast. The tour actually started as a single show at San Francisco’s Noise Pop festival, but the band decided to extend it to include stops in Los Angeles, Seattle and Santa Cruz. Read more...

Sophocles may be long gone, but his tragic tale of honor and fidelity is very much alive in Big Dance Theater’s funky, experimental reinterpretation “Antigone the tin can tied to her own damn tail,” opening tonight at the Freud Playhouse. Read more...

English Professor Frederick Burwick kept a secret during the casting process of “Death’s Jest Book,” the Thomas Lovell Beddoes play he is currently directing: he had already been invited to bring the performance to New York’s Lincoln Center. Read more...

I remember a time when I had to make a gut-wrenching decision every Saturday night. Should I go out, have a few drinks, and hit on girls way out of my league or stay home and watch “Saturday Night Live”? Read more...

So you thought you’d left that teen angst behind when you came to UCLA. There wasn’t going to be any more weeping in the bathroom over boys. Read more...

Mix a boy from New York whose favorite food is pheasant with a Korean-born girl who loves Mexican food. Stir in the “artsy” new movie “Till Human Voices Wake Us,” and add a sprinkle of a casual coffee. Read more...