Creme Blush Silverlake Lounge Feb. 18, 8 p.m. Hot girls from New York with new wave haircuts will make you dance and most likely have far cooler shoes than anyone in the club. Read more...

Blood. Gore. Attractive women. Cheap thrills and even cheaper effects. Ah, yes. The elements of every old horror movie, right? Wrong. The UCLA Film and Television Archive hopes to show that these stereotypes are not the only elements to make up horror pictures. Read more...

Los Angeles’ Chinatown is perhaps best known for its quaint, if somewhat scruffy, streets, lined with shop-houses and buildings that alternate between historically interesting and downright downtrodden. Read more...

In a pitch-black studio, a 20-inch television is turned on, the screen facing a white wall. The channels are constantly changing, and the volume stays low. Read more...

“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982″ attempts epic revelations in its placard commentaries on and interpretations of individual artists’ work. Forced commentaries aside, however, the photographs themselves demonstrate the form’s capability to capture humanity at its most inane moments. Read more...

When Victoria Vesna and Jim Gimzewski began engineering the interactive, all-ages exhibit “nano” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts’ Boone Children’s Gallery, they did not anticipate aggressive children breaking the cameras and microphones or getting lodged in the tunnel-like kaleidoscope. Read more...

Currently on exhibit in UCLA’s Fowler Museum through May 30 is “Power of Thought,” an art collection of drawings and works on cloth by the late Jessie Oonark, whose vivid depictions of Arctic inhabitants and animals drew their inspiration from the Inuit culture in northern Canada. Read more...