The video game industry is booming. It’s riding a $30 billion wave of consumer interest, which, these days, exceeds the profits of movies at the box office. Read more...

Nicole Smith, a world arts and cultures student, handed out tickets for her one-woman performance last summer to attendees of the Jacob’s Pillow dance festival as they sat on the lawn. Read more...

For fans of television, mid-May is both an extremely exciting and potentially harrowing time of year. On one hand, shows are delivering exciting season-ending arcs. On the other, mid-May is also the time that networks put together their schedules for the next television season. Read more...

After seven different releases of its debut album, you’d think orchestral country-folk group Hem would have given up on music. But the band hasn’t, and a few false starts only paved the way for its current prolificacy. Read more...

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The Court of Sciences, a location typically associated with science and math, catered to the fine arts this weekend as an inundation of artistic activity drew crowds to ArtsDay LA on Saturday. Read more...

Regina Spektor has the sort of charm so irresistible that it would make Audrey Tautou blush. Born in Russia and raised in the Bronx, Spektor is scheduled to perform Tuesday at the El Rey Theatre. Read more...