Actors may really want to direct and directors may really want to act, but few people really want to be a casting director. “I never started out to be a casting director,” Mike Fenton said. Read more...

For costume designer Julie Weiss, “you are what you wear” is no mere adage; it’s a fact of life. “Look around. Some of us wear our families and our families’ past; some steal stories from other people and wear them as their own,” said Weiss, who designed the costumes for “Frida,” inspired by Frida Kahlo’s vivid paintings. Read more...

Sunday night’s show at The Fillmore was all business and all pleasure. For an hour, the New York rock quartet Interpol created an expansive, moody soundscape that was as atmospheric as it was cutting. Read more...

Dirty. Filthy. Nasty. Christina Aguilera isn’t the only one who can describe these words. ACME Comedy Theatre’s “ACME So Horny,” a sketch comedy show that premiered Feb. Read more...

If the hype looks too good to be true, then chances are it probably is. As obvious as this lesson may seem to most level-headed individuals, I had the unfortunate privilege of learning it the hard way last week along with hundreds of other students from UCLA and USC, after sitting on Hollywood Boulevard for nearly two hours under a stuffy vinyl tent, and for what? Read more...

Sometimes the wisest words come from the mouth of the most incoherent concertgoer. After tipping the bartender, an inebriated fan lamented, “What happened to acoustic?” That was the question lingering in the back of many heads at the Acoustic Live Showcase Series. Read more...

My birthday is coming up, and I’m going to have a few hundred dollars to blow on something, so I figure I’ll blow it on video games since I’ve been out of the loop for about a year now. Read more...