Basement Jaxx “Kish Kash” Astralwerks This album isn’t quite the house music with which your older brother grooved along, which means it isn’t quite the house music this famed duo touted toward the end of last century. Read more...

Sounding so good never looked so easy. Sunday night at Schoenberg Hall, the Takács Quartet performed the second in an ambitious series of six concerts dedicated to completing the Beethoven string quartet cycle. Read more...

Life after college often forces aspiring rock “˜n’ rollers to give up their dream of the stage for the practicality of a 9 to 5 job. Read more...

Toward the tail end of Salman Rushdie’s appearance at Royce Hall last night, a patron asked the internationally renowned author if one of the night’s main topics ““ storytelling ““ could possibly work itself into the political debate and, in turn, enrich it. Read more...

Sometimes a little can say a lot. Capturing the horrors of four years of warfare doesn’t require a three-hour film; director Paolo Ameli only needed ten minutes. Read more...

On Friday, performances by avant-garde poet Christian Bök and Los Angeles-based digital media artist Erik Loyer showcased some of the latest endeavors of UCLA’s Electronic Literature Organization at the Hammer Museum. Read more...

Back right, forward left, side behind side behind, kick, step turn, heel click, and spin. Confused? That was just the warm-up. For the students already fumbling and bumbling during this John Travolta-style hustle warm-up, sessions of waltz, cha-cha, and swing were right around the corner. Read more...