If you enter the Fowler Museum over the next month and a half, you will be blessed by the Dalai Lama. Starting July 5, the UCLA museum will be home to a pair of events focused on the principles of the Buddhist religious leader. Read more...

For many people sporting Mohawks or donning extremely tight female pants, there is one date that is penned on their calendars the entire year ““ the date the Vans Warped Tour rolls into town, bringing along 100-plus bands performing for a ticket price of $25. Read more...

“Love” Cirque du Soleil OPEN RUN Unlike VH1, Cirque du Soleil is never about the music. The performance group that somehow turned the clown-and-acrobat circus into an art succeeds because of the stunts onstage, not the musical backdrop that paces the performance. Read more...

Meteorologists predict that summer 2006 will be the hottest season in years. It looks like summer television will be turning up the heat as well. For the average TV watcher, summer is a time for deep reflection on months past. Read more...

“A Scanner Darkly” Directed by Richard Linklater Warner Independent Pictures Long before the suburban Orange County of color-saturated beachfront mansions and high school hook-ups flounced across primetime television, acclaimed science fiction novelist Philip K. Read more...

Rachel Haden grew up in a household where music was as ubiquitous as Mom’s apple pie. As the daughter of jazz musician Charlie Haden, one would expect Rachel to have learned about music in a traditional fashion. Read more...

Though blockbuster explosions and hot young bodies may draw the crowds to the theaters this summer, a different kind of action has recently taken over the silver screen: social action. Read more...