Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts

It’s a little surprising to when nerd-on-nerd drama becomes a fascinating introspective into love and loneliness in modern-day life.

Creating a video of people playing a piano with another person’s head is a far cry from UCLA alumnus Tejpal Ajji’s original intention of becoming an ancient Greek art historian. When he was a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Ajji started making videos in a sculpture class and got hooked on video making.

Raised in a bicultural household with a Venezuelan physician as a father who brought pictures of dead bodies found in swamps to the dinner table and a mother who got her master’s degree in statistics, Christine Suarez pursued an unanticipated career.

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Wilco and Schubert isn’t a combination that comes to mind when considering an orchestral performance, but for the experimental and classical music ensemble wild Up, this is nothing out of the ordinary.

Founded by conductor Chris Rountree, wild Up is essentially one of the Hammer Museum’s most recent installations.

Vicious, man-eating and disease-carrying rats infest the city of Dunwall, where steampunk meets supernatural in Arkane Studios’ new first-person stealth title “Dishonored.”

Aesthetically similar to industrial 19th century Britain, “Dishonored” puts players in control of Corvo Attano, Dunwall’s royal protector and the Empress’ personal bodyguard.

If there’s one thing to put on a Los Angeles bucket list, watching a live theater performance can definitely add a bit of refinement to the typical prerequisites of going to Diddy Riese and watching a football game.