While its location in the Kinross Building just north of Wilshire isn’t the focal point of the UCLA campus, the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department hopes to make its presence felt through UCLArts. Read more...

The crowd at the Troubadour Thursday night was about 75 percent female. This is the case when an attractive, acoustic singer-songwriters performs. Jason Mraz, an up-and-comer headlined the sold-out show, proving to the 600 enthusiastic fans that he has more to offer than many of his crooning contemporaries. Read more...

The simplicity of Godfrey Reggio’s new film, “Naqoyqatsi,” is drenched with complexity. The film is easy to understand, but the ideas behind it are overwhelming. “If you’re simple-minded, life is either this or that, black and white, good or bad, America or Iraq,” Reggio said after the film’s L.A. Read more...

For the aging audience members who probably still remember a relevant Woodstock, and younger converts seeing him in the flesh for the first time, the last of Bob Dylan’s three shows at the Wiltern felt more like a reunion between old friends than a rock concert with a larger-than-life cultural icon. Read more...

Two theater festivals, both alike in dignity, in fair Los Angeles, where we lay our scene “¦ Unlike the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s tragic play, the Edge of the World Theater Festival and UCLA Performing Arts’ first International Theater Festival are not explicit rivals, but rather are working together to bring a cutting-edge collection of local and international theatrical arts to Los Angeles. Read more...

In a male dominated Hollywood, where women active on both sides of the camera are still scarce in numbers, there was an Ida Lupino who managed to act, direct, write, and produce films within the Hollywood studio system as early as the ’40s. Read more...

Just like many rockers who grew up in the ’80s, singer John Schmersal of the exuberant and eclectic rock group “Enon” enjoys waxing nostalgically about the music of the past. Read more...