Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Hollywood is trying to ruin my holiday season. As I consciously try to see all the Oscar-contending films before the nominations so I can complain about how wrong the Academy got it this year, Focus Features released “21 Grams” right around Thanksgiving. Read more...

“Shyness is Nice” Alliance Theatre Now through Dec. 21 Playwright Marc Spitz tells the story of two shy 30-year-old virgins on a mission to get laid. Read more...

In “N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk,” the rapid-fire, genre-defying tour de force that played in front of a fully-packed Freud Playhouse this past weekend, UCLA theater, the homegrown variety that is, might have finally found a voice truly to call its own. Read more...

GLASGOW, Scotland — All the telltale signs were there: nappy braids, purple Muppet-fur shoulder bags, and “McShit” T-shirts. Time to put away the G.O.P. geriatrics, kids; Michael Moore’s in town. Read more...

Religious visionaries are usually depicted as bearded men with strange names living in Biblical times, not young runaways moonlighting as mushroom pickers in the woods of Washington. Read more...

Rebecca Kapen Fowler Museum Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Fowler Out Loud! presents the concertmaster of the UCLA Philharmonic Orchestra in an evening of solo and chamber works for strings. Read more...

For comedians Dave Attell and Lewis Black, the road is home and room service is a man’s best friend. It’s not exactly “road sweet road,” but the two stand-up comics have built a high tolerance for the traveling life. Read more...