Customs and Tradition

Drum aficionados, this is a good month to be in Los Angeles. This Saturday, Guitar Center will stage its annual "Drum Off" finals at Club Nokia, with a host of session-aces and band members performing mini rhythmic flights of fancy. Sadly, there likely...

Last night’s Iowa Caucus result represents an attempted pendulum swing for the country. Senator Rick Santorum’s surprising surge and victory, in spite of a few votes short of Governor Mitt Romney, is reminiscent of Mike Huckabee's victory four...

For the first time cameras are taking viewers into the complex world of the American gypsy culture via two new series —National Geographic Channel's American Gypsies (debuting in spring) and TLC's My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding (in 2012). Ralph...

The most interesting and impressive gadget I saw at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show this week was Nintendo's next video game console -- the Wii U. It was also one of the riskiest products, outside of Nokia's new Windows Phone handsets, I saw too....

For the third year in a row, the “Poe Toaster,” who annually marked the birth of Edgar Allan Poe by leaving cognac and three roses on his grave, failed to make to the nocturnal trip....

In a normal week, a debate audience booing the Golden Rule might have made headlines for several days. Partisan churls shout down beloved precept. Golden Rule gets leaden response in Myrtle Beach. GOP crowd boos "… unto others." But it......

Running a word-count program on the transcript of last night's GOP presidential primary debate I get: Mitt Romney -- 4,649 (34%) Newt Gingrich -- 4,118 (30%) Rick Santorum --2,898 ( 21%) Ron Paul -- 2,095 (15%) This does not include......

THQ Inc., once one of the industry's largest publishers of video games for children, said it will no longer produce licensed kids titles for traditional game consoles....

The weekly Pop & Hiss rundown of the weekend's top concerts, including Wilco, Lucinda Williams, the Secret Chiefs 3 and more. Friday • Wilco @ the Los Angeles Theatre. At an early, pivitol Wilco show back in 1996, the band......

In a world still climbing back from the recession, debt crisis and natural disasters, can the U.S. economy be a beacon of hope? Many signals globally suggest instability. Traditional growth economies ??? the oft-cited BRICs, or Brazil, Russia, India and.....

Christopher Knight reviews "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States" at Los Angeles County Museum of Art...

When actress Cynthia Nixon described herself as "gay by choice" in a New York Times magazine interview, she not only set off a storm of reexaminations of the evidence on whether homosexuality is a matter of nature or nurture, but......