The music (and film and tech and everything else) at South by Southwest almost always looks to the future. Emerging acts and novel sounds and panels try to make sense of a music industry turned inside-out. So what a treat to wander into a club set from ’70s rock experimentalist Todd Rundgren at...

When she was a newly independent teen living in a tiny New York apartment, Barbra Streisand never made her bed. Determined to pursue her dream as a Broadway actress, she regarded her unkempt covers and thought, “I have to make it.” Make it in her career, that is. How else would she get enough mone..

One day before the February release of his highly anticipated debut album "Victory Lap," L.A. rapper Nipsey Hussle cut the ribbon on a combination co-working space and STEM center in the Crenshaw district. The center, partly dedicated to calling attention to the lack of diversity in the science,...

Twenty years ago, with a University of Oregon architecture degree under his belt, Bay Area kid Daniel Wu took a serendipitous trip to Hong Kong as his graduation present. He wanted to witness the handover, stay a few months, then go home and figure out what to do with his life. But a chance scoutin..

Jonathan Wilson, “There’s a Light” video (Bella Union). The singer, songwriter, producer and musical connector has long tapped into the history of Los Angeles guitar rock, and in a new video for a song from his just issued album, “Rare Birds,” Wilson zeroes in on the reason: “There is a feeling...

Tumult at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the new buildings slated to rise in Los Angeles. I’m staff writer Carolina A. Miranda with this week’s essential art news (and an essential song devoted to bread): IMAGE OF THE WEEK MOCA CHIEF CURATOR OUT Times art critic Christopher Knight broke the....

Psychedelic surf rock is not something Westerners generally associate with Cambodia. If we think about Cambodia at all, we might recall the murderous tyrant Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge in executing more than a million Cambodians in the infamous Killing Fields in the mid-1970s. We might briefly...

Regarding “Things Are Getting Better for Women Behind the Camera in TV” [March 11]: Kudos to the current crop of prominent showrunners on their commitment “to break old habits” of gender-based bias by influencing their TV studio employers to hire more diverse directors. However, given my 23 years...