Arctic Monkeys “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” Domino Records The Arctic Monkeys must be doing something right. The pop-rock quartet nearly beat out Oasis as the fastest-selling U.K. Read more...

If there’s one thing The Four Hipsters of the Apocalypse ““ the four immaculately dressed editors who run the arts and entertainment section ““ hate, it’s publicists. Read more...

Missy flinches as she receives the question. The customer, a man wearing a suit with a red tie who looks like he went to college, can’t see the cafe menu in huge letters right in front of him. Read more...

Beth Orton “Comfort of Strangers” Astralwerks Records In 1996, Beth Orton was canonized into the genre of trip-hop with her debut “Trailer Park,” which established her as the woman who brought folk-rock sensibility to the burgeoning electronic generation. Read more...

You can tell a lot about a party, or party-goers for that matter, by checking out the food table. One of my good friends from high school best summed up this idea when we were in the middle of a fight over how much food to buy for a party we were hosting together. Read more...

Most would argue that Japanese anime and the American theater have little to do with each other. The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble’s production of Adam Rapp’s “Stone Cold Dead Serious,” however, manages to fuse the two together, albeit not seamlessly. Read more...

Polaroid photographs remind us of childhood birthday parties and other usually embarrassing events only worthy of inexpensive documentation. Most people would agree that these photographs hardly constitute art worthy of space in a museum. Read more...