As a tour guide led a group of UCLA architecture graduate students through the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s barren backstage area, a sense of anticipation swirled through everyone. Read more...

Toward the tail end of Salman Rushdie’s appearance at Royce Hall last night, a patron asked the internationally renowned author if one of the night’s main topics ““ storytelling ““ could possibly work itself into the political debate and, in turn, enrich it. Read more...

Sometimes a little can say a lot. Capturing the horrors of four years of warfare doesn’t require a three-hour film; director Paolo Ameli only needed ten minutes. Read more...

On Friday, performances by avant-garde poet Christian Bök and Los Angeles-based digital media artist Erik Loyer showcased some of the latest endeavors of UCLA’s Electronic Literature Organization at the Hammer Museum. Read more...

Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar comes from a family that has been dhrupad vocalists for four and half centuries. Dhrupad is the oldest form of Indian classical music, an art form that was once reserved for the inner temple of the king’s courts and has made a public debut only recently. Read more...

It’s not the first time tango’s been twisted, nor is it likely to be the last. Once upon a time a man by the name of Astor Piazzolla, tango’s rough equivalent to jazz’s Duke Ellington, took the treasured Argentinian dance music and elevated it to the level of classical music. Read more...

UCLA’s Music of Brazil ensemble is finally official. Throughout last year, the ensemble had met weekly under the direction of Latin American Studies M.A. graduate student Beto Gonzalez to practice Brazilian music as an informal group. Read more...