Royce Hall fell silent last Wednesday night during the “Organica” concert as the first refrains of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” bellowed from an unseen source. On a large screen images flashed of incongruous L.A. Read more...

Franz Ferdinand The Cooperage Tuesday 8 p.m. At last, someone is surpassing the boundaries of garage rock, and they come from Scotland. Franz Ferdinand maintains what was good about the revival in the first place, but hikes it up a notch with its quirky attitude and arty personality. Read more...

The main goal of a college education, if the majority of my professors are to be believed, is to learn to think critically about as wide a variety of issues as possible. Read more...

After the conquest of India by the British Empire in 1857, India’s representation in the Western world had been forever changed. The photographs displayed in the UCLA Fowler Museum’s deeply historical new exhibition “Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900″ explore how the portrayal of a vast nation has been packaged and sold. Read more...

“The Sound of Music” James Bridges Theater Sunday 2 p.m. It may be an arbitrary ranking, but there’s a reason the American Film Institute put this Julie Andrews star vehicle on their list of the 100 best American films ever made. Read more...

Liars “They Were Wrong, So We Drowned” Mute Imagine the noise of a factory falling apart, groaning toward anarchy as machines tear themselves from walls and explode in a flurry of destruction. Read more...

It’s both a good and a bad thing that one of the most beautiful spots in the Grand Canyon is also one of the most difficult places to get to. Read more...