I’ve been wearing the same thing for six days. Yes, I’ve been showering. And I’ve changed everything else other than the dress; but as for how I appeared, I looked more or less the same from day to day. Read more...

For students camped out in front of Ralph’s at 3 a.m. on Thursday, the waiting has been the hardest part. Clad in UCLA sweatshirts and swaddled in sleeping bags, the 30-odd group of people, many of them UCLA students, has formed a line that cannot be missed. Read more...

I believe very little of my Chinese mom’s off-the-wall claims about food. She once told me that if you eat too many instant noodles, your body will just lie there, preserved, after you die. Read more...

Like millions of viewers, Annie Chen once tuned in every Thursday night to watch the latest episode of “Will & Grace.” Unlike other viewers, however, Chen has seen the show in its most basic form, free of the flashy trappings of postproduction. Read more...

Plus/Minus Tonight 9 p.m. Spaceland, $8 Plus/Minus doesn’t like fast food. They won’t touch the stuff as though it represented some homogenized evil. As the mathematically polemic band journeys west to Los Angeles, it seems the only thing it s members are desperately jonesing for is another dose of mom-and-pop cuisine to satisfy their travel sickness. Read more...

"SANKAI JUKU" November 17-18, 8 p.m. Royce Hall, $15 for students Butoh has come a long way from its days of smothering livestock on stage. While there will not be any animals tortured on the stage of Royce Hall this weekend, the tortured faces of the dancers offer a window into the roots of a now much-evolved Japanese dance form. Read more...

As the end of the year looms close and the seasons change (read: it’s five degrees cooler outside and the sun stays down a bit longer), it comes time for music geeks worldwide to start making end-of-the-year lists. Read more...