By Colburn Tseng Writer-director Rory Kelly slouches in a chair at the Westwood Marquis Hotel munching on cookies when he makes a surprising disclosure. The topic of conversation is the UCLA film school graduate’s employment history before directing his debut feature "Sleep With Me," which recently opened in New York and Los Angeles. Read more...

By John Sabatini With a new album released in June and an enviable opening spot on Metallica’s U.S. arena tour, this has been a colossal summer for Suicidal Tendencies, the veteran Venice surfer metal/punk band which has been scaring parents and evangelists for years. Read more...

By John Irvin The camera shows what appears to be a female figure seated on a chair. She is wearing tight pants and stockings, and she is blindfolded. Read more...

By Brian Remick If for only an hour or two, it seemed that the reign of hard rock over the Palace temporarily ceased with the presence of a small Australian band named Frente! Read more...

By Barbara E. Hernandez Daily Bruin Staff The month of September holds special meaning to Jews, a month centering around Judaism’s high holidays, a time of moral analysis and the celebration of the new year. Read more...

By Nisha Gopalan Not since the Revolting Cocks’ "Beers, Steers & Queers – Drop Your Britches Mix" has a band so provocatively incorporated the subject of sodomy into a song – until now. Read more...

By Michael Tatum "Hey, enough with the requests already … I’ve got an agenda!" So quipped folk singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III in the middle of his show to a fan who just had to hear "Screaming Issue." Of course, Wainwright didn’t really have an "agenda" – he consulted a tiny scrap of paper in the beginning of his set, only never to look at it again for the remainder of the evening. Read more...