On the third floor of Kerckhoff Hall, a room is open to all who wish to breathe in its explosion of posters, flyers, boxes, computers and tickets. Read more...

Last week we left Donald having a wild dream, haunted by the ghost of Kurt Cobain, who was about to impart his beyond-the-grave tortured genius on single D. Read more...

Music and Los Angeles go together like unfulfilled expectations and Bruin basketball. A battle of the bands can break out anywhere and anytime. The latest musical mêlée to hit the Westwood area is an eight-week free-for-all called Acoustic Live. Read more...

By naming themselves Super Furry Animals it would seem a band is trying to cultivate a cuddly, friendly image. The Furry Animals quickly dispelled that notion Monday night at the Palace. Read more...

German composer and director Heiner Goebbels is something of a mad scientist of theater. His new production, which comes to the Freud Playhouse tomorrow, is a dreamy, visionary piece that incorporates the writings of Gertrude Stein, Japanese folk music and Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds.” When asked about the tone of “Hashirigaki,” he has a simple response. Read more...

Entering the mind of another human may seem impossibly sci-fi. But the UCLA Hammer Museum and its three new exhibits make the process fun and easy. Read more...

“Lipstick Traces” Through Oct. 20 UCLA Little Theater (310) 825-2101 1.5 Paws Remember how parents always reminisce about the “good ol’ days” when candy was a quarter and life was simpler, and basically all the kids could do was sit there, aching for the speech to be over? Read more...