As soon as the last horse race finished at Hollywood Park on May 9, the excited crowd hurried over to a makeshift stage to the side of the track. Read more...

Two households, both alike in dignity, in punk-rock Berlin, where we lay our scene, Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers leaves courtly Verona to inhabit gritty 1980s Germany. Read more...

With a sophisticated humor, David Mamet captures a slightly older audience with his “Two Unrelated Plays,” a fitting title for the two one-act plays showing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre until June 8. Read more...

This weekend, I watched what has to be my favorite movie of 2008 thus far. Read more...

In the 1960s, blues rocker Janis Joplin turned the music industry upside down with her soulful ballads, becoming the emblem of San Francisco rock and the hippie movement. Read more...

In June 2005, Jason Pierce, the main visionary behind Spiritualized's orchestral drug rock, was rushed to Royal London Hospital, where he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and experienced a near brush with his longtime lyrical preoccupation: death. Read more...

The approaching summer means the end to, or at least the three-month break from, entertainment as we know it. Read more...