The crowd on Collins Court at the John Wooden Center was a bit different than usual on Saturday night. Read more...

A funny thing happened on the way ... er, in the movie theater the other day. Read more...

As electronic sounds diffuse across musical genres and musicians look to the backdrop of urban civilization for inspiration, Toronto’s Do Make Say Think prefers a different strategy. Read more...

In the first five seconds of “American Gangster,” Denzel Washington, playing the role of Harlem drug mogul Frank Lucas, sets a bound man aflame as he pleads for his life, then wordlessly fires a bullet into the man’s head. Read more...

Ted Braun’s documentary, “Darfur Now,” presents a festering critique of Sudan’s Arab-dominated military regime, which has funded and plotted the murder of thousands of non-Arabic Africans. Read more...

The British sure do know how to use the whole buffalo. That is to say, their television comedy scripting is phenomenally tight. There is no part of the script that does not prove vital; comic elements tie in with one another like a magnificent jigsaw puzzle or the infinite gems of Indra’s Net. Read more...

A jazz combo is a traditional unit of jazz performance featuring drums, guitar and … a Hammond B-3 organ? The Brent Canter Trio, comprising three fourth-year ethnomusicology students who met at UCLA freshman orientation, is one jazz band that subscribes to this unique definition. Read more...