By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Senior Staff The Tarantella is famous as the frenetic dance that victims of the dreaded tarantula used to perform to clean their systems of the deadly poison. Read more...

  Emilia Hwang If you would like to encourage Hwang’s celebrity status, send her plenty of fan mail at [email protected]. Stop the presses. Ben Affleck touched me. Read more...

Audra McDonald performs at Royce Renowned mezzo-soprano Audra McDonald will perform at Royce Hall on Oct. 21. Her new CD, “How Glory Goes,” has won substantial critical acclaim and the New York Times praises her as “restoring hope in a musical future.” McDonald is the winner of three Tony awards and is expected to win a fourth for her starring role in the Broadway show, “Marie Christine.” For ticketing information, call the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101. Read more...

  Illustration by AMY HABER/Daily Bruin   By John Mangum Daily Bruin Contributor If John Schlesinger’s first love is film, then opera is his mistress. Schlesinger, the Academy Award-winning director of films including “The Falcon and the Snowman,” “Midnight Cowboy,” “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” and, most recently, “The Next Best Thing,” first tried his hand at opera nearly two decades ago when he directed Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann” at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Read more...

By Andie Dingman Daily Bruin Contributor Everybody loves Raymond. He’s likable, comfortable, and, well, boring. Every sitcom and comedy variety show, from “Raymond” to “Saturday Night Live” to “Tom Green,” might be mildly entertaining, but do any of them make you think? Read more...

  Photos from Shooting Gallery Jason Cairns stars in Tony Barbieri’s "One," written by Barbieri and Cairns. By Emilia Hwang Daily Bruin Senior Staff According to songwriter Harry Nilsson, “One is the loneliest number,” and Tony Barbieri, director and co-writer of the movie “One,” tends to agree. Read more...

Oct. 18 FREE advance screening of "Bamboozled," 6 p.m. @ Freud Playhouse Oct. 20 FILM & TV: Movie openings: Animal Factory, The Yards, Bedazzled, Just One Time, Requiem For a Dream Radiohead, 8 p.m. Read more...