“I’d got back to the new pad depressed that morning, having blown the last of the coke and started jerking off to a newspaper picture of Hillary Clinton in a power suit running for Senator of New York.” So says Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson, initiating the first in a series of many depraved sex acts in Irvine Welsh’s latest book, “Porno,” the sequel to 1996’s incredibly popular “Trainspotting.” Only this time, instead of scamming in order to score heroin, Simon has his sights set on world domination via a single, earth-shatteringly original porno film, made right above the bar he now owns. Read more...

Joy Harjo’s right hand is more than just a body part. It’s the instrument she’s used to write volumes of poetry, the tool she uses to play the saxophone, and the canvas she’s used for exotic tattoo art. Read more...

The Carl Wilson Foundation, founded by Beach Boy member Wilson’s sons Jonah and Justin after their father died of cancer, is having its annual benefit this weekend. Read more...

What do you do when you’re a prisoner of war? Well, if you were French composer Olivier Messaien in a concentration camp during World War II, you’d write “Quartet for the End of Time,” a piece for piano, clarinet, violin and cello that sounds as important and ethereal as its title suggests. Read more...

The dead and the living unite in Royce Hall tomorrow at 2 p.m. as UCLA Live presents Buster Keaton’s “The Navigator” accompanied by organist Chris Elliott. Read more...

Step aside, Adam and Eve, here comes a new version of creation. Romeo Castellucci directs the Societas Raffaello Sanzio group’s “Genesi: From the Museum of Sleep,” loosely based on the biblical book of Genesis, which reveals a different view of creation. Read more...

Bruins who were around in 1997 may already be familiar with the name Matt Swanson. That year, his last at UCLA, Swanson was crucial in helping the men’s water polo team beat USC to win their second consecutive national championship. Read more...