Six chicken strips and a side dish for $2.99 is not the only deal available to students at the Cooperage. Unknown to most concertgoers, the Coop offers a night of free live music about every other week. Read more...

Los Angeles can be a tough diamond to cut. “The music scene has seemed kind of opaque so far,” said Hrishikesh Hirway of Connecticut band The One AM Radio. Read more...

Twisting the expectations of genre, the Mark Taper Forum’s new production of the musical “Big River ““ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” aims, at least in part, to fall on deaf ears. Read more...

In the short video “Upside Down,” an older woman makes makloubeh, a traditional Palestinian food dish. The last shot shows the completed product: separate and distinct layers of chicken, rice and vegetables piled on each other, but combined to form something bigger than its individual parts.  Similarly, the widely-varying world of Arab video shorts piles up into a more complete vision of Arab society. Read more...

Comedies and spoofs are central on this year’s menu of UCLA’s theater department play series. Kicking off their 2002-2003 series, third-year master of fine art students in the theater department present Christopher Durang’s “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” and Caryl Churchill’s “Cloud Nine,” directed by professors Larry Arrick and April Shawhan, respectively, starting tonight and running through Nov. Read more...

I recently had an out of this world experience. No, I didn’t use my millions of dollars and boyish good looks to buy my way onto a Russian spaceship like that guy from *NSYNC. Read more...

In the rapidly changing world of theater, there are certain classics that remain on Broadway and continue to travel the national theater scene because of their timeless appeal. Read more...