On Sunday, L.A. Times food critic, Pulitzer Prize winner and UCLA music history alumnus Jonathan Gold will appear at the Hammer Museum to discuss the evolution of food culture in Los Angeles, mainly Asian cuisine in light of Chinese New Year. Read more...
Photo: L.A. Times food critic Jonathan Gold revealed his identity after years of choosing to remain anonymous in order to preserve the reputation and validity of his reviews.
Mixing the artful complexities of “Traffic,” the occasional wit of “Ocean’s Eleven,” and the medically thrilling tones of “Contagion,” “Side Effects” seems like an appropriate send-off of specialty techniques and styles for director Steven Soderbergh before going on his publicized, indefinite hiatus. Read more...
David Shields’ crippling stutter pushed him to become a writer to cure his language troubles. It is literature that eventually developed his connection to the world. Read more...
Photo: In author David Shields’ new book “How Literature Saved My Life,” he debates the actual importance of literature.
Not to spoil anything, but “John Dies at the End” is a zany movie. Based on the popular book and former Web serial, the early-year indie hit pits two college dropouts against an otherworldly monster army created by a new, addictive, dimension-warping drug. Read more...
I’ve been in love with the idea of the Sasquatch! Music Festival for years now, even more so than with that of Coachella. Read more...
It’s a public school art student’s worst nightmare: the moment a school tells that student it no longer has the grant money to fund his or her artistic endeavors. For UCLA world arts and cultures students, this nightmare became their reality. Read more...
Photo: WacSMASH’d is the largest annual student-produced showcase put on by the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Students present original dance, film, music, art and spoken word pieces in this three-day free event held at Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater. Historically, the WAC Undergraduate Society has been able to fund the show using only on-campus funding, but because of budget cuts, they had to fundraise this year.
Embrace the noise, My Bloody Valentine is back. Read more...
