Robert David Port couldn’t have known what he was getting into when he and a three-man crew began filming the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit in mid-2001. Read more...

International cultures collided, literally, on stage last Sunday at the Aratani/Japan American Theatre in Little Tokyo as the Art of Rice Traveling Theater performed their production about Asia’s essential crop. Read more...

Matty Nash, bandleader of the multi-sensory performance troupe The Mutaytor, says his group’s trademark is its ability to turn civilians into rock stars. He’s a believer in the romantic idea that the two are in fact mutually exclusive. Read more...

As the James Bridges Theater opens its doors Wednesday for this fall’s public screenings, patrons will experience the luxuries of a massive renovation project that brought the theater’s sound system up to the standards of a state-of-the-art movie theater. Read more...

UCLA is undeniably one of the most diverse and dynamic college campuses in the country. It plays host to Nobel Prize-winning professors, Division I sports teams, a happening social scene and even an on-campus museum ““ the last being the least obvious. Read more...

The lights go down, the curtain goes up, and for the next few hours you are transported out of your ordinary life. The theater can be a magical, even life-changing experience. Read more...

Why rice? According to Fowler Museum of Cultural History curator Roy Hamilton, the starchy grain is the one commonality on a continent that makes no sense as a single unit. Read more...