It all boils down to how you define “like.” Meet Dan (I promised David that I wouldn’t use his real name), a cohort of mine since we loaded a dorm elevator with a bunch of caution cones as freshmen. Read more...

Sometimes it takes very little to reinvigorate a dying art form. At a time when public radio trails even network television in terms of innovation, it may come as a surprise that one of National Public Radio’s most creative programs has risen to the top just by keeping it simple. Read more...

It’s funny just imagining how much cleverness went into creating the delightful silliness that is Steve Martin’s unabashed “The Underpants,” leaving audiences in stitches at the Geffen Playhouse now through May 2. Read more...

At Santa Monica’s Highways Performance Space, the walls drip with bold red and black fabric ““ it envelopes the beats of an Oriental jazz band, creating a steady rhythm for three dancers to languidly rise after slowly pounding and stretching on the ground. Read more...

High school students dropped off by their parents, snobby art school aficionados and thirty-something business men were all milling around the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard on March 29. Read more...

Sam Beam is out of a job. But what he’s lost in salary, the former film professor at the Miami International University of Art & Design, is making up for with record sales. Read more...

Musicians come from all walks of life, even from the sports world. But the results are, as they were in Shaq’s rap career, often less than great. Read more...