Los Angeles Opera Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera "Don Pasquale" opens on Friday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. By John Mangum Daily Bruin Contributor Most people are in their cars on their way home for the weekend at 5 p.m. Read more...

  Cyrus McNally Cyrus is a fourth-year neuroscience student who currently spends his time scheming for world domination. E-mail him at [email protected]. Yo, it’s 2030, and I want y’all to meet the sounds of the future ““ the American Empire has fallen into the hands of the corrupt and the mouths of the moochers. Read more...

  PRIYA SHARMA/Daily Bruin California Chicken Cafe offers a healthy alternative to fried chicken outlets. RESTAURANT REVIEW California Chicken Cafe Address: 2005 Westwood Blvd. West Los Angeles (near Pico Boulevard) Hours: Weekdays 11 a.m. Read more...

  Brent Hopkins Hopkins is currently doing hard time in the Federal Jazz Deprogramming Center in Grand Rapids, Mich. Send your thoughts to [email protected]. Whenever I used to hear preachers rail about the evils of music, I used to ignore them as lowbrow simpletons, unschooled and unappreciative about the power of great art. Read more...

  DANIEL WONG The Chen Art Gallery is located in Torrance, housed in the Sunrider International building, and is open each week, Tuesday through Thursday. By Janet Nakano Daily Bruin Contributor Tucked away in a towering executive building, sprawled out over nine acres of land, lies a hidden treasure of Chinese art and artifacts. Read more...

  MacGillivray Freeman Films "Journey into Amazing Caves" is a new IMAX film about the mysterious world of underground passages and labyrinths. By Jacqueline Maar Daily Bruin Contributor Going where no man has gone before, cavers explore unknown, and often uncharted, territories, hidden deep within earth’s crevices. Read more...

  UCLA Performing Arts In her only Los Angeles recital, Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha will perform at Royce Hall on Thursday at 8 p.m. Concerts in Powell Rotunda The UCLA Gluck Fellows Group will perform a concert in the Powell Library Rotunda on Wednesday from 4 to 4:45 p.m. Read more...