I believe very little of my Chinese mom’s off-the-wall claims about food. She once told me that if you eat too many instant noodles, your body will just lie there, preserved, after you die. Read more...

Like millions of viewers, Annie Chen once tuned in every Thursday night to watch the latest episode of “Will & Grace.” Unlike other viewers, however, Chen has seen the show in its most basic form, free of the flashy trappings of postproduction. Read more...

Plus/Minus Tonight 9 p.m. Spaceland, $8 Plus/Minus doesn’t like fast food. They won’t touch the stuff as though it represented some homogenized evil. As the mathematically polemic band journeys west to Los Angeles, it seems the only thing it s members are desperately jonesing for is another dose of mom-and-pop cuisine to satisfy their travel sickness. Read more...

As the end of the year looms close and the seasons change (read: it’s five degrees cooler outside and the sun stays down a bit longer), it comes time for music geeks worldwide to start making end-of-the-year lists. Read more...

In Dakar, the capital of Senegal, a man introduced himself to Giavanni Washington, asking her whether she was married or had children. Washington, a world arts and cultures graduate student, was not in Africa to find her mate, however; she was there for WAC’s first summer program to Senegal. Read more...

Immersed in the atmosphere of a dark movie theater, where all you can see are flashing images projected onto an enormous screen, it’s often easy to forget that movies are actually multimedia projects. Read more...

“Breaking the Mode” Sept. 17, 2006 – Jan. 7, 2007 LACMA From dresses made of two concentric circles stuck together to business suits done out of the same material as tracksuits, LACMA’s “Breaking the Mode” fashion exhibit challenges viewers’ preconceived notions about what defines fashion. Read more...