Gustavo Dudamel was once the boy wonder of the international conducting scene. Nicknamed “the Dude”, he was the breakout star of El Sistema, the Venezuelan government’s pioneering music education ...

‘START SCREENING BETTER AT THE DOOR’ — The fallout from the arrest of an undocumented immigrant on gun and drug charges at a ...

To start 2025, venues like the Music Center’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Teragram Ballroom and the United Theater on ...

Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond. He previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an ...