The latest installation at the UCLA Hammer Museum features photographs that literally pop off the walls. For students in UCLA’s graduate art program, the man behind those photos has made his way out of the gallery and into the classroom. Read more...

About two years ago, Todd Drootin was sitting at his home in Encino, surfing on Napster and trading his music with other tech-happy, independent artists. While online, a man who went by the name Infoslut told Drootin about his mp3 label No Type. Read more...

John Fasano’s “Notebooks, Sketches and Placemats” 18th Street Gallery Through Feb. 28 Zero Paws Remember the preview for “Darkness Falls,” the movie about an evil spirit who has returned, in the guise of the tooth fairy, to the town that lynched her? Read more...

When most people his age were rockin’ to “Fraggle Rock” during their diaper years, Wade Robson had already begun working toward his future dance career. As soon as the dancer/choreographer discovered how to use his legs, his career had begun. Read more...

Jonah’s Onelinedrawing is not the typical gathering of musicians that you’d expect to see on stage. The group regularly includes singer and guitarist Jonah Matranga and an R2D2 tape recorder that plays drumbeats, not to mention the frequent unplanned friends that jump up to join him. Read more...

The Twentieth Century Limited, one of the fastest trains of the 1930s, could make the journey direct from Chicago to New York in 16 hours. Unfortunately for passenger Oscar Jaffey, a once fantastic theater director, this means that he has only 16 hours left to regain his reign over Broadway in the Reprise! Read more...

In “Gangs of New York,” Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis) gives a monologue about how the spectacle of violence maintains the social order, an idea which informs much of Scorsese’s film work. Read more...