“Coffee and Cigarettes” Directed by Jim Jarmusch United Artists Never has a little nicotine and tobacco been so filling. “Coffee and Cigarettes,” the new film by director Jim Jarmusch, presents a look at daily life in the form of many short black-and-white vignettes, all interconnected by the presence of the two little title addictions. Read more...

Eugene Hütz is like a wedding singer, birthday party clown and Jackass cast member rolled into one skinny Ukrainian man with a handle-bar moustache. With acrobatic flips, magic tricks and an indulgence in harming equipment and himself to embellish his rough musical act, the frontman of Gogol Bordello violently stretches the role of a singer. Read more...

When today’s music fans make the effort to catch their favorite band live, they often expect a rendition, if not an exact duplication, of the group’s latest album. Read more...

There seems to be no limit to the rise of poker madness, and UCLA is cashing in on the craze Read more...

Politically outspoken musicians are always a cause for controversy. But if there was ever one American musician to represent the American ideal of achievement in the face of hardship and public condemnation, it would have been human rights activist and opera singer Paul Robeson, one of America’s most persecuted activists due to alleged ties to the Communist Party in the 1940s and ’50s. Read more...

What makes “Urinetown,” and especially the touring production that opened a two-week run at the Wilshire Theatre on Tuesday night, work so well as a musical comedy is not that it manages to make good use of its preposterous main conceit in spite of itself. Read more...

Back in the 1990s, members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology blackjack team jetted off to Las Vegas and hustled casinos out of millions of dollars using borderline illegal card-counting techniques. Read more...