As I watched the Red Hot Chili Peppers spray Ryan Seacrest with Silly String during the red carpet preshow, I couldn’t help but have hope for this year’s Grammy Awards. Read more...

"Jules" Promenade Playhouse Jan. 27 through March 4 It’s a simple conversion, really. Replace Verona with Kansas City, Mo., the “art thous” and “thees” with obscenities, toss in some contemporary ideological tension and voila! Read more...

Most students get penalized when they miss class. Aleks Pevec, on the other hand, got a highly sought-after role in the musical “Wicked.” Pevec, a fourth-year theater student with the UCLA Ray Bolger Musical Theater program, explained that he had nothing to do after a class of his was cancelled, so he opted to audition for “Wicked” in Los Angeles. Read more...

Kiefer Sutherland. Tom Hanks. Hilary Duff. What do these celebrities have it common? My friends met them instead of me. I seem to have a real knack for missing celebrity sightings. Read more...

Sondre Lerche “Phantom Punch” ASTRALWERKS RECORDS Inspired after touring with Elvis Costello, Sondre Lerche abandoned the billowy pleasantry of his first albums, “Faces Down” and “Two Way Monologue,” and the jam-session arrangements of his jazz-influenced last album “Duper Sessions” in favor of the spirit of early Costello. Read more...

An archival screening at the Billy Wilder Theater is not just about the film, but the experience. The theater’s vivid architecture ““ including fuchsia leather seating and neon lights that line the ceiling ““ add to the appeal of the choice location, nestled within the UCLA Hammer Museum. Read more...

Last week, NASA gave us its most supremely entertaining story since the Apollo 11 moon landing. I’m talking, of course, about the story of “The Pampered Astronaut,” as Lisa Nowak has been dubbed. Read more...