Lunch does not usually include a heaping side of dance, but the world arts and cultures department is serving them as a combo. Today at noon, dance and lunchtime will come together with "Talking Dance," performed by Simone Forti and Carmela Hermann, as part of WAC's In The Garden series. Read more...

In a geographical world that is now converging with the World Wide Web, oceans seem to shrink into a mere data stream. For a specific cultural group, Asian Americans, the effect of new media, particularly in the past 15 years, has catalyzed the formation of a new subcategory of pop culture: Asian American pop culture. Read more...

"When was the last time you had cream soda or root beer from a tap?" reads a sign on the wall of Westwood's The Stand, the latest addition to the Encino Valley hot dog chain. Read more...

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Aurélia Thiérrée was born into performing arts. Literally. Her mother was performing on stage in 1973 when her water broke. Read more...

If humor today is measured by the number of times one can successfully insert "That's what she said" into a conversation, then Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" might not qualify as a comedy. Read more...

After dropping out of Yale's musical program, David Longstreth made albums about post-9/11 America, environmentalism and 16th-century Spanish imperialism under the moniker Dirty Projectors. But it wasn't until he made an album about an empty cassette that he found his most universal theme. Read more...