The music industry as we know it may well be a sinking ship.
Worldwide music sales were down 7.6 percent last year, the fourth
consecutive year they’ve dropped since 2000.

Thomas Schumacher, one of Disney Feature Animation’s most
influential creative forces and president of Disney Theatrical
Productions, briefly escaped the Broadway lights earlier this year
to handle a speaking engagement at the UCLA Anderson School of
Management.

Sometimes it takes very little to reinvigorate a dying art form.
At a time when public radio trails even network television in terms
of innovation, it may come as a surprise that one of National
Public Radio’s most creative programs has risen to the top
just by keeping it simple.

Charles Bissell is a natural born rock singer. His chords
don’t have an effortless cool like Lou Reed’s, but
instead a kind of natural brashness, an every-word-counts urgency
that can turn even the most pedestrian lines into a keening
credo.

The UCLA Student Committee for the Arts is known for bringing
big-name concerts to campus, from Love and Arthur Lee last year to
George Clinton in spring 2002.

If there’s one potential misconception UCLA alumnus Jean
Chung wants to shake off, it’s that “Forgotten
Terror,” the art exhibit she helped organize, treads on old
ground.

Of the 11 political documentaries being screened by the UCLA
Film and Television Archive in the two-week series “This is
Not Your TV,” one clear highlight is acclaimed filmmaker
Errol Morris’ new work “Fog of War: Eleven Lessons of
Robert S.

Basement Jaxx “Kish Kash”
Astralwerks

This album isn’t quite the house music with which your
older brother grooved along, which means it isn’t quite the
house music this famed duo touted toward the end of last century.

Toward the tail end of Salman Rushdie’s appearance at
Royce Hall last night, a patron asked the internationally renowned
author if one of the night’s main topics ““ storytelling
““ could possibly work itself into the political debate and,
in turn, enrich it.

On Friday, performances by avant-garde poet Christian Bök
and Los Angeles-based digital media artist Erik Loyer showcased
some of the latest endeavors of UCLA’s Electronic Literature
Organization at the Hammer Museum.