You’d think coffee, coming straight from the ground, would be an obviously organic food. Nope. Turns out coffee beans are probably as chemically processed as a Big Mac. Read more...

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They’re finally coming home. For many involved in the Stephen Petronio Company’s production of “BLOOM,” their performances Friday night and Saturday night at Royce Hall will be a homecoming of sorts. Read more...

The amount of recorded music that exists in the world is mind-boggling. Even with the limited scope of contemporary rock, pop, country and hip-hop, sorting through all of it would take a lifetime, three quarters of which would be wasted on awful material. Read more...

Typical images of the 1930s in America: the Great Depression, migrant farm workers, Herbert Hoover. Few think of cinema. But the 1930s mark one of the most heralded decades in movie history. Read more...

Center Theatre Group "13" Dec. 22 through Feb. 18 Anyone who survived eighth grade remembers the cliques, superficial gossip and social anxiety that made the last year of middle school one of the most traumatic yet formative adolescent years. Read more...

What’s fresher than the latest club banger from Akon or Jay-Z? Think back to Russia around World War I, when composers Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky became greats because of their innovative contributions to classical music at such a pivotal time in history. Read more...