Watching yourself on television is an unusual experience. Watching yourself on television while hiding the fact that you're $50,000 richer and a first place runner-up on one of the well-known game shows on television is downright once in a lifetime. Read more...
Photo: James Hill III from Santa Clara University, left, practices his buzzer skill with fellow contestants Ryan Stoffers from UCLA and Ashley Walker from Dartmouth College.
If British indie-rock band Fanfarlo had as many band members as they do instruments, they'd need double the musicians. Read more...
Never in my concert-attending life have I seen performers have an effect on the audience quite like Huun Huur Tu and Tinariwen. Read more...
About halfway through his two-hour set Friday night at Royce Hall, Randy Newman lost track of his own song. Granted it was one of the newer ones, "Laugh and Be Happy," from his 2008 album "Harps and Angels," but it was still his song, and it wasn't the first mistake he'd made. Read more...
As the 12-member Palast Orchester began to play Thursday night, and Max Raabe stepped out with his distinctive baritone, impeccably dressed in coat and tails, Royce Hall was immediately transformed into an elegant ballroom of the bygone era of the 1920s and '30s. Read more...
Rock 'n' roll bands may claim to be all about rebellion, but you'd be hard-pressed to find one that embodies that fighting spirit more than Tinariwen. Read more...
Photo: Formed in the crucible of the long freedom fight of the nomadic Tuareg people of the Sahara, Tinariwen has been leading a revolution in world music since 2001. The group, which has played at major music festivals throughout the world, including Coachella and Glastonbury, will lay down their hypnotic bass and drum beats on Saturday at Royce Hall.
On the surface, it looks like just an adorable cartoon musical note. Its understated dot eyes and line mouth make it seem like something you could find at the Hello Kitty store. Read more...
Photo: The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts will present the Gadget OK! symposium and exhibition at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center today and Friday.
