At first he seems like your typical college professor. In the film “The Human Stain,” Anthony Hopkins portrays Professor Coleman Silk, a Classics professor at a prestigious Ivy League university. Read more...

Somewhere in the middle of Theatre 40’s spirited performance of “Twelfth Night,” the servant Fabian (Rachael Lyerla) steps up to the audience, cheekily pulls down her character’s elasticized beard, and declares, “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” Director Steven William, abetted by a more-than-able cast, seizes upon this line, one suspects, and turns his rendition of the play into a festival of metadramatic madness. Read more...

Just in time for Halloween, Los Angeles movie theaters are ready to satisfy your horror fix by showing classic scary movies on big screens across the city. Read more...

Jacqueline Warwick is just one example of a pioneering musicologist from UCLA. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 after writing a dissertation on the connection between popular music in the 1960s and the female identity. Read more...

Recent landscape architecture graduate Claire Touze-Shawaf has visions of a children’s park near LAX without any metal monkey bars or slides. Her model involves a miniature Stonehenge that helps kids spot certain stars, and grass mazes just tall enough for small children to completely submerge. Read more...

If you want an easy job, you can apply to pretend to hang out in a café for AMC’s new show “Sunday Morning Shootout.” The show, which has aired twice, is set in a coffee shop complete with anonymous coffee drinkers to add to the authenticity. Read more...

By Jake Tracer dB MAGAZINE SENIOR STAFF [email protected] At 6613 1/2 Hollywood Blvd., among the sex and novelty shops, east of the wax museum and tourist traps, there exists, well, a boarded up building with a big “For Lease” sign posted on it. Read more...