The marriage of the visual and the emotional can be found in the graphic memoir, where raw biographies can be flipped through with the ease of a comic book and admired with the power of a Greek narrative. Read more...
Photo: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” was selected as the best book of 2006 by Time. Bechdel will be at Royce Hall tonight for a spoken word performance.
Lev Grossman is a novelist, a senior writer and a book critic for Time Magazine and a contributor to techland.com. Read more...
Unless you're already well-versed in Shakespearean language, it isn't uncommon to find yourself appreciating the poetry at a Shakespeare production but not knowing exactly what's going on in the story. Read more...
Photo: Children attend one of the Geffen Playhouse’s “Saturday Scene” performances. The playhouse will present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” this Saturday.
Tammy Nguyen never thought she'd find success as a producer when she moved out of Los Angeles and back to Texas. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Tammy Nguyen is a producer behind the new WE tv reality show “Girl Meets Gown.”
"No One Knows About Persian Cats" is a flawed but fascinating film that gives an insider look into Iran's underground world of clandestine musicians. Read more...
The age of high-definition video is apparently also the age of the nature documentary. Read more...
The way Samuel Jones sees it, he never had a choice but to pursue his dream of becoming a hip-hop artist; he's been rapping since he was 12 years old, scribbling verses in a spiral notebook in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Read more...
Photo: Recent graduate Lauren Silva works on a large-scale painting in her senior studio at the Broad Art Center. After graduation this June, Silva plans to begin applying to graduate school programs in painting, with hopes of pursuing art as a career.
