No one has e-mailed me about this specifically, but I have had numerous people in the last week or so ask me two general questions in person: 1. Read more...

The electro rhythms of French pop-rock group Air will fill Royce Hall on Nov. 12-13 as the soundtrack to Ballet Preljocaj’s “Near Life Experience.” Whimsical rock musicians Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air, who wrote the music for “The Virgin Suicides” in 2000, have composed a completely original soundtrack for the bold new ballet by Angelin Preljocaj. Read more...

Hundreds of Los Angeles celebrity magazines won’t give you half the intimate details of watching some of the most important artists of the country in their open conversations at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Read more...

This year’s UCLA Wind Ensemble is the best one yet ““ at least that’s the claim made by conductor Dr. Thomas Lee. But students will get a chance to find out for themselves on Nov. Read more...

With his starlit gaze and sweet, smooth voice, Max Raabe is a modern-day Rudy Vallee. On stage, the tall and slender baritone’s seductiveness is further accentuated by the elegant 1920s style tuxedo he wears. Read more...

Whenever I need to apologize to someone, I look to acting guru and personal role model Lindsey Lohan. See, there’s a famous scene in the epic, monumental and ground-breaking movie “Mean Girls” where Lohan plays the main character, Cady Heron, and apologizes at prom to all the girls in her school for an entire school year of smack-talking and gossip. Read more...

Everything is politics. And in the glamorous industry of filmmaking, sometimes it’s not just what you do or how well you do it; it’s mainly who you know. Read more...