By Mary Williams Daily Bruin Senior Staff The creative team behind Gorillaz played a great set that no one could see Friday at the first of two shows at the Hollywood Palladium. Read more...

  DANIEL WONG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff The Gyuto monks, performing at Royce Hall tonight, create a mandala. By Mary Williams Daily Bruin Senior Staff Tibetan monks in a museum on busy Wilshire Boulevard might seem out of place, but somehow it was the native Angelenos who looked like they didn’t fit. Read more...

  EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff With some newly-available technology, DVD movies like these can be copied and traded by anyone with an Internet connection. By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Reporter Two years ago, a 19-year-old Norwegian named Jon Johansen won a prestigious national award for high school students, The Karoline Prize, honoring extracurricular achievements. Read more...

By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Reporter The sky is falling at the Cirque du Soleil’s production of “Dralion.” The show, currently running next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, features a mysterious eight-ton ring 50 feet above the stage that seems to randomly drop things, whether it be performers, long satin ropes, juggling balls, or even the words of the welcome announcement before the show: “Please turn off all cell phones and pagers.” As objects fall from above, performers come from below, from the sides, and even from behind the audience. Read more...

  New Line Cinema Ice Cube and Mike Epps star in "All About the Benjamins." “All About the Benjamins” Directed by Kevin Bray Starring Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Tommy Flanagan Wild police pursuits, diamond heists and bad guys with facial scars ““ it may sound like a new Arnold Schwarzenegger flick but instead it’s Ice Cube’s latest action-comedy project, “All About the Benjamins.” Cube, an actor, co-writer and co-producer, returns to the big screen this time as Bucum Jackson, a bounty hunter on the prowl for Miami’s toughest petty thieves. Read more...

  Howard Ho Ho frequently has dreams of people sending him e-mails, but alas, he wakes up from that fantasy. For some more behavioral engineering, contact Ho at [email protected]. Read more...

  Dreamworks Records Rufus Wainwright is performing at the Wilshire Ebell Theater Friday. By Anthony Bromberg Daily Bruin Senior Staff Take the sounds of Broadway musicals, Wagner operas, hip poetic imagery lyrics, melodic piano and occasionally guitar lines, lots of textural sounds and sweet impassioned pop vocals, and that is some sense of where Rufus Wainwright’s music comes from. Read more...