L.A. Guitar Quartet will perform at Royce Hall The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, an instrumental ensemble whose recent self-titled release debuted in the top 15 of the Billboard Classical-Crossover charts and remained there for six months, will perform at 8 p.m. Read more...

By Aphrodite Manousos Daily Bruin Contributor Anti-pop Consortium, Sonic Sum and Mike Ladd all came out Tuesday night to the El Rey for a celebration of indie hip hop and in protest of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction and placement on death row. Read more...

By Terry Tang Daily Bruin Senior Staff It is Thanksgiving, a day to cherish family, friends and life. A fisherman, minding his own business, suddenly finds a distraught and dehydrated boy clinging to an inner tube in ocean waters off the Florida coast. Read more...

By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Staff Beginning today, the UCLA Conference on Mexican Literature and Culture for the Millennium aims to explore the diverse art and heritage of Mexico and the border United States. Read more...

By Angela Salazar Daily Bruin Senior Staff Thumb-sucking children have more to fear than getting an overbite. In the morbid style of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey, “Shockheaded Peter” tells tales of strangely entertaining ways to punish disobedient children. Read more...

David Gray “White Ladder” ATO Records The windows are open and the rumbling trucks roll past the small house in London where David Gray is recording his fourth, self-financed album. Read more...

By Brent Hopkins Daily Bruin Senior Staff Whether it comes in the form of a marching band’s snares or a pounding disco beat, the drum has always been a universal instrument. Read more...