The Hammer Museum usually offers up art; this week, the showcase is a supermodel and a magazine editor. Eric Nakamura, editor of the magazine Giant Robot, and Asian-American model Jenny Shimizu will be speaking together at the museum on July 12. Read more...

If you enter the Fowler Museum over the next month and a half, you will be blessed by the Dalai Lama. Starting July 5, the UCLA museum will be home to a pair of events focused on the principles of the Buddhist religious leader. Read more...

“Superman Returns” Directed by Bryan Singer WARNER BROS. PICTURES One would think that a film about the world’s most iconic comic book character would live or die based on the super-strength of its high-flying protagonist, but “Superman Returns” gets off the ground thanks to the performances of a few mere mortals. Read more...

The last time Radiohead performed in Los Angeles, it was September 2003 and this fall’s seniors were wide-eyed freshmen just finishing their first Welcome Week. A lot has changed since then: Many students who started out pre-med have moved up to North Campus, the Daily Bruin’s dB Magazine is all but forgotten, and Radiohead, one of the world’s most acclaimed and successful bands, doesn’t have a record deal. Read more...

“A Scanner Darkly” Directed by Richard Linklater Warner Independent Pictures Long before the suburban Orange County of color-saturated beachfront mansions and high school hook-ups flounced across primetime television, acclaimed science fiction novelist Philip K. Read more...

Rachel Haden grew up in a household where music was as ubiquitous as Mom’s apple pie. As the daughter of jazz musician Charlie Haden, one would expect Rachel to have learned about music in a traditional fashion. Read more...

Though blockbuster explosions and hot young bodies may draw the crowds to the theaters this summer, a different kind of action has recently taken over the silver screen: social action. Read more...