They’re back. They’re in black. But they’re not about to rock. In fact, the music the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will play this weekend is quite a bit more sophisticated than that of AC/DC. Read more...

“The show must go on” is a common motto underlying any kind of performance art, and that saying is especially true this year for the seventh annual Lotus Steps, a production by the UCLA Chinese Cultural Dance Club. Read more...

I try not to make predictions, as they’re inevitably wrong. The last three predictions I made were that “The Aviator” would beat “Million Dollar Baby” for Best Picture, that John Kerry would beat George W. Read more...

By the age of seven, Jennifer Middleton already had an agent. But with appearances on the television shows “Full House” and “NYPD Blue,” commercials for Mattel and Subway and dozens of stage plays under her belt before she entered high school, she decided to take a break from an early career in acting to pursue the life of a “normal” teenager instead. Read more...

Chaos and control are two concepts that people usually view as separate from one another. But these dichotomies are explored and reconciled by art Professor Jim Welling and four visiting art professors in the photography exhibit “Chaos or Control” in Perloff Gallery, on display through June 7. Read more...

Summer Exhibitions Santa Monica Museum of Art Through Aug. 19 Once a Westside trolley station, Bergamot Station is now an art complex. Within the center’s facade of industrial aluminium siding resides the Santa Monica Museum of Art, which recently debuted three distinct collections by Ken Brecher, Mariella Bettineschi and Alvaro Siza. Read more...

Not that this is a big shock or anything, but I download music pretty much all the time. So when I heard that MTV was going to step into the MP3 retailing ring today, ready to face off Rocky-style with Apple’s iTunes, I was intrigued. Read more...