Taking the stage of Silverlake’s trendy club Spaceland, this month’s rock-band-in-residence, The Vacation, endeavors to crack the hard shells of Los Angeles music-goers by presenting enduring punk-rock music with an attention-grabbing performance. Read more...

“The Wind Cries Mary” David Henry Hwang Theater “Bra burning doesn’t accomplish anything,” quips Eiko Hanabi, the main character in playwright Philip Kan Gotanda’s “The Wind Cries Mary,” playing at East West Players through Feb. Read more...

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“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982″ attempts epic revelations in its placard commentaries on and interpretations of individual artists’ work. Forced commentaries aside, however, the photographs themselves demonstrate the form’s capability to capture humanity at its most inane moments. Read more...

When Victoria Vesna and Jim Gimzewski began engineering the interactive, all-ages exhibit “nano” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts’ Boone Children’s Gallery, they did not anticipate aggressive children breaking the cameras and microphones or getting lodged in the tunnel-like kaleidoscope. Read more...

Currently on exhibit in UCLA’s Fowler Museum through May 30 is “Power of Thought,” an art collection of drawings and works on cloth by the late Jessie Oonark, whose vivid depictions of Arctic inhabitants and animals drew their inspiration from the Inuit culture in northern Canada. Read more...

Two and half years ago, Chris Colthart stepped off his plane into the silver sparkle of Hollywood sunshine. With no job, no car and a freshly left-behind band, the 28-year-old guitarist of indie-rock band The Faraway Places had little more than any average newcomer to the land of milk and honey’s biggest dream-propagating city. Read more...