Marina Goldovskaya likes to tell a story about a conversation she had while filming her 1992 documentary “Shattered Mirror.” While waiting in a three-to-four hour line at a Moscow gas station, she began filming as part of her video diary. Read more...

If anyone mentions silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin will likely be the first name mentioned along with it. Maybe Buster Keaton. But there are other dominant figures in early film comedy, including a duo that developed a unique style, churned out over 100 films and made a successful transition into talking pictures: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Read more...

Writer, stuntman and fight choreographer Craig Reid, who has worked with Jackie Chan, wants to let people know ““ everybody was not kung fu fighting. “That song shouldn’t have been created,” Reid said. Read more...

Michael Chabon is a storyteller on a mission. He is a man who has brought literary respectability to subjects as varied as bisexuality, baseball, pot-smoking professors and comic books. Read more...

It was Sunday, while watching the Grammys with my common-law wife, Christy, that I made my latest resolution. “That’s it,” I said, “I’m sick and tired of this garbage. Read more...

Joan Baez, one of the most prominent female folk singers since the 1960s, will perform at Royce Hall tonight, treating students to a voice that has brought sweet chills to listeners for over forty years. Read more...

The experimental rock band Tortoise will be performing at the Henry Fonda Theatre tomorrow night for one of only four shows on the West Coast. The tour actually started as a single show at San Francisco’s Noise Pop festival, but the band decided to extend it to include stops in Los Angeles, Seattle and Santa Cruz. Read more...