For better or for worse, “Runaway Jury” is an extremely historic film, even if it’s not an extremely good one. In the same way “Heat” paired Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together for the first time (They were never in a scene together in “The Godfather, Part II.”), “Runaway Jury” does the same for Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. Read more...

Filipino American novelist, playwright, poet and screenwriter Jessica Hagedorn has been a key figure in Asian American literature since the release of her 1990 debut “Dogeaters.” The piece garnered wide acclaim and a National Book Award nomination upon its release. Read more...

One of the hottest new bands in Los Angeles owes a lot to some of the oldest. Keith Slettedahl is the lead singer and songwriter of The 88, who perform at noon today in Westwood Plaza. Read more...

Carlo Ginzburg is a great showman. The renowned UCLA history professor knows how to keep the audience guessing by limiting the details of his upcoming speech on replication. Read more...

Twin brothers “Frit” and “Frat” Fuller, two newly appointed faculty members in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, are leading a dance class at Focus Fish studios in Santa Monica. Read more...

As Lee Bontecou stepped up to the microphone in front of admiring guests at her art exhibit in the Hammer Museum, she realized her lowly position relative to the sound piece. Read more...

Toward the end of “Homebody/Kabul,” Tony Kushner’s sensational new play at the Mark Taper Forum, Milton Ceiling (Reed Birney) tries to explain binary duals to an Afghan woman he’s considering taking back to London. Read more...