Just as “School of Rock,” Richard Linklater’s newest flick gets off its feet and into its bubbly crowd-surf, Dewey Finn (Jack Black) intercepts a call from a top-tier private school that wants to offer his roommate a substitute teaching stint. Read more...

Two different generations of music will take the stage this Sunday night at Royce Hall when multi-Grammy-award winner and saxophonist Michael Brecker will be sharing the bill with trumpet/flugelhorn player Roy Hargrove. Read more...

Robert David Port couldn’t have known what he was getting into when he and a three-man crew began filming the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit in mid-2001. Read more...

International cultures collided, literally, on stage last Sunday at the Aratani/Japan American Theatre in Little Tokyo as the Art of Rice Traveling Theater performed their production about Asia’s essential crop. Read more...

Matty Nash, bandleader of the multi-sensory performance troupe The Mutaytor, says his group’s trademark is its ability to turn civilians into rock stars. He’s a believer in the romantic idea that the two are in fact mutually exclusive. Read more...

As the James Bridges Theater opens its doors Wednesday for this fall’s public screenings, patrons will experience the luxuries of a massive renovation project that brought the theater’s sound system up to the standards of a state-of-the-art movie theater. Read more...

You wouldn’t know it by the band’s thrashy dance-until-you-break sound, but the first song Hot Hot Heat’s drummer Paul Hawley ever learned was the famous pre-school tune “You Are My Sunshine.” Of course, Hawley has moved on since then. Read more...