By Kristin Fiore Daily Bruin Senior Staff Musicians have many idiosyncrasies ­ biting the heads off of chickens, wearing shoe polish on their face during shows or making stage hands pick out all the brown M&Ms ­ and let’s not even get into Perry Ferrell. Read more...

By Brandon Wilson Daily Bruin Contributor There are two things that British filmmaker Mike Leigh is obviously tired of discussing with reporters. First is his trademark method of creating screenplays with a set of actors after months of intensive improv with the collective group. Read more...

By Susan Lee Daily Bruin Contributor If pictures were worth a thousand words, the Kerckhoff Art Gallery might resemble a giant encyclopedia collection. From the outside, the gothic architecture of Kerckhoff is striking. Read more...

By Vanessa VanderZanden Daily Bruin Contributor Choose a non-commercial rock band. Choose Mom and Pop stores. Choose Germany. Choose Headcrash, playing at noon tomorrow at Westwood Plaza. Read more...

By Brian Remick Daily Bruin Contributor No one would deny that Los Angeles is one of the most important music centers in the world. Which makes it even harder to believe that there has never been a large-scale music festival held in Los Angeles. Read more...

By Cheryl Klein Daily Bruin Senior Staff The Pressed Ham Theater Company’s answering machine invites callers to listen to a scene from their current production, "Oh, Hamlet!" Rather than the "To be or not to be" cliche, listeners get an earful of clanking swords, followed by a game show announcer-style voice asking, "Who will win? Read more...

By Kristin Fiore Daily Bruin Senior Staff Not many men with advanced degrees and receding hairlines can bring down a house packed to the rafters with wild twenty-somethings. Read more...