On the third floor of Kerckhoff Hall, a room is open to all who wish to breathe in its explosion of posters, flyers, boxes, computers and tickets. Read more...

Last week we left Donald having a wild dream, haunted by the ghost of Kurt Cobain, who was about to impart his beyond-the-grave tortured genius on single D. Read more...

Music and Los Angeles go together like unfulfilled expectations and Bruin basketball. A battle of the bands can break out anywhere and anytime. The latest musical mêlée to hit the Westwood area is an eight-week free-for-all called Acoustic Live. Read more...

“Lipstick Traces” Through Oct. 20 UCLA Little Theater (310) 825-2101 1.5 Paws Remember how parents always reminisce about the “good ol’ days” when candy was a quarter and life was simpler, and basically all the kids could do was sit there, aching for the speech to be over? Read more...

OK let’s just get things straight. Something seriously screwy is going on here. I haven’t seen “The Fast and the Furious.” I haven’t seen “XXX.” I will not see “Knock-around Guys.” But Vin Diesel is kicking ass around the box office. Read more...

By naming themselves Super Furry Animals it would seem a band is trying to cultivate a cuddly, friendly image. The Furry Animals quickly dispelled that notion Monday night at the Palace. Read more...

German composer and director Heiner Goebbels is something of a mad scientist of theater. His new production, which comes to the Freud Playhouse tomorrow, is a dreamy, visionary piece that incorporates the writings of Gertrude Stein, Japanese folk music and Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds.” When asked about the tone of “Hashirigaki,” he has a simple response. Read more...