UCLA Performing Arts Director David Sefton takes a while on the phone before he can talk. He wishes he were at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas at the moment, but he’s stuck in his office looking at his budget for the 2003-2004 season. Read more...

At the end of last quarter I made a bold pronouncement. “Rock is not dead,” I exclaimed. But feeling particularly bitter that day (it was 10th week after all), I made my courageous claim only by way of introducing what I felt to be five of the biggest problems in music today. Read more...

Oh, to be young and talented. Or in the case of the dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater II, performing April 12 and 13 in Royce Hall, to be young and employed by the junior branch of one of the most well respected dance companies in the world. Read more...

Crumbtown is populated by ex-cops who now play cops on television, half-twins who have the same father and birthday but different mothers and a former child TV star who’s now coke-addled and method acting. Read more...

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Performing arts organizations have always had to jump through hoops just to convince government agencies to allow international artists to enter the United States. With the Sept. Read more...