As playwright Luis Alfaro will tell you, writing a love scene for a guy and his mother is hard work.

Drawn to the show’s competitive nature, sensational catfights, and outrageous clothing, fans of The CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” (ANTM) have kept the series running with great affection for nine seasons, and other networks are taking note.

More in line with the Addams family than the Camdens, Erik Sanko and Jessica Grindstaff fell in love through a mutual interest in the macabre.

“Butterflies of Uganda” immediately grabs your attention with the opening line: “Let me tell you a story. I was conceived in rape.”

You know you’re at a modern art exhibit when the woman staring at a piece of ordinary-looking red plywood mounted before you whispers with a bemused grin, “So I have this at my apartment. I bought it from Home Depot and I use it as my flooring.”

Even performance professionals sometimes must head back to school. And for a few L.A. artists, UCLA has the right summer curriculum.

Watch out, Pinkberry. There’s a new frozen yogurt store ready to hit Westwood.

“American Idol” has done it. “Project Runway” has done it. Now, UCLA is doing it.

What if a leather-clad Spartan from “300” was pitted, not against the Persian army, but against “Desperate Housewives” femme fatale Eva Longoria?

Jeri Floyd’s eyes well up with tears as she watches her daughter leap across the stage.
Two weeks before her daughter Rachel’s show, she watches as Rachel dances to “Wisdom of the Moon” on the Royce Hall stage ““ the same music that played during Rachel’s first dance class five years ago.