We Are Scientists “With Love and Squalor” Virgin Records It looks like rock ‘n’ roll is dead. Again. SPIN Magazine’s latest issue named The Killers as the 2005 band of the year, the equivalent of calling Nickelback the next Nirvana or Radiohead jamming with Coldplay. Read more...

“Why We Fight” Directed by Eugene Jarecki Sony Pictures Classics Criticism of U.S. foreign policy, especially regarding the war in Iraq, is nothing new. A filmmaker who makes it the impetus behind a documentary film ““ especially one released almost three years since the war’s inception, and without much in the way of new facts ““ runs the risk of creating a completely superfluous work. Read more...

When I was flipping through the February issue of Vogue, something caught my attention ““ a headline heralding Wisconsin senator Russell Feingold as “the most blogged-about Democrat since Howard Dean.” This was big. Read more...

When “Can You Hear Me? Asian Dance Voices” opens its doors for its U.S. premiere on Jan. 20 at Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, audiences should expect more than a simple display of traditional Southeast Asian dance ““ they should be prepared to embrace a performance that invokes questions of life, spirituality and the power of cultural identity to transcend generations. Read more...

Reading a newspaper in January 2006, one feels a tragic sense of deja vu. Stories of violent insurgencies, military operations and ceaselessly rising body counts are reported with such regularity that a person can often find it difficult to distinguish one day’s news from the last. Read more...

The Golden Globes have always been the most amusing televised awards show for me. Maybe it’s because the Globes are handed out in a dinner party environment, leading to an increased chance for drunken acceptance speeches, or maybe it’s that every year some young girl is selected to be “Ms. Read more...

Two hundred fifty years ago, one of the greatest figures in the history of Western civilization was born. UCLA Live and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra have plans to celebrate that birth in a way unlike anything this country has seen. Read more...