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...

Can a neighborhood sell out? Opening today, “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” questions whether the benefits of revitalizing the ‘hood truly is worth the cost of  its soul and identity. Read more...

Many students and faculty skipped their usual Kerckhoff Coffeehouse run Wednesday, in favor of an afternoon of art and complimentary refreshments just next door. Samba music and mingling observers filled the usually empty Kerckhoff Art Gallery, as the Associated Students of UCLA’s Art in the Union program hosted a reception Wednesday afternoon to honor the winning entries in its annual Art in the Union program. Read more...

Play it again, Sam. Returning to the stage after a successful 2002 debut at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and currently playing at the Geffen Playhouse through Feb. Read more...

When Cary Long, owner of the sci-fi-themed Nova Express Cafe in Hollywood, moved from Berkeley to Los Angeles 14 years ago, he carried with him a passion for the Bay Area’s literati-independent coffeehouse culture and planted it between a barbershop and a pharmacy on Fairfax Avenue. Read more...

It’s difficult to find common ground in the writings of Alice Sebold and Glen David Gold. Her dark first-person narratives on unsettling topics differ from Gold’s fantastically colorful historical fiction. Read more...