Picture a half-naked man, wrapped in only a loin cloth while he plays an 800 pound drum alone on the stage of Royce Hall. This act, along with another piece in which players drum while sitting on the floor in a half sit-up position for about 10 minutes, is a piece by Kodo, a taiko drum group from Japan’s Sado Island that launched its One Earth Tour in California this month. Read more...

Doing his own stunts for years, Jackie Chan has dislocated his cheekbone, pelvis and shoulder. He’s also broken his nose, his head, teeth and ankle. “The ankle always comes out,” Chan said. Read more...

These days, screenwriters seem to be getting all of the attention, maybe a little more than they deserve. When screenwriters apply overused devices to tell stories, they still get praised for their originality, despite how many times their contrived devices may have been used by other artists in other media. Read more...

By Sean Halloran DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] Widescreen may be considered a special feature of DVDs, but for members of The Film Foundation, such as Robert Redford, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, it will be the future standard in home entertainment. Read more...

To say that the medium is the message regarding Stephanie Strickland’s poetry would only be scratching the surface. A 30-year-old veteran poet and currently a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, Strickland’s work consists of collaborative poetic efforts that cut across paper and digital media, ultimately connecting an understanding of their meaning to their presentation. Read more...

Igor Stravinsky was Russian, but as far as the Orchestre National de Lyon is concerned, he’s French: if not by blood then at least by ear. Read more...

For those who believe a crooning hunchback is responsible for striking the bells atop the Powell Library Building, the giant Altec-Lansing Horn Speakers are, apparently, not apparent enough. Read more...