When “Can You Hear Me? Asian Dance Voices” opens its doors for its U.S. premiere on Jan. 20 at Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, audiences should expect more than a simple display of traditional Southeast Asian dance ““ they should be prepared to embrace a performance that invokes questions of life, spirituality and the power of cultural identity to transcend generations. Read more...

Reading a newspaper in January 2006, one feels a tragic sense of deja vu. Stories of violent insurgencies, military operations and ceaselessly rising body counts are reported with such regularity that a person can often find it difficult to distinguish one day’s news from the last. Read more...

The Golden Globes have always been the most amusing televised awards show for me. Maybe it’s because the Globes are handed out in a dinner party environment, leading to an increased chance for drunken acceptance speeches, or maybe it’s that every year some young girl is selected to be “Ms. Read more...

Two hundred fifty years ago, one of the greatest figures in the history of Western civilization was born. UCLA Live and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra have plans to celebrate that birth in a way unlike anything this country has seen. Read more...

Every year, the Sundance Film Festival inadvertently determines the fate of independent film in the U.S. more than any other cinematic event. More selective than a black-tie mixer or Harvard Law, it embodies a mysterious aura, a quality of myth, the stuff of legend. Read more...

As a longtime Daily Bruin contributor and former arts and entertainment editor, I never clash with the editorial decisions made in the A&E section. Of course, whenever writers deal in absolutes, they’re only setting themselves up for contradiction. Read more...

When the calendar rolls over into a new year, it’s not only a reminder that pop culture is continually changing, it gives us a chance to reflect on trends that were big the year before and make predictions for the year to come. Read more...