Rita, on music and her roots [Q & A]

By Tom Teicholz
Published on October 24, 2012

On Nov. 1, Israel’s most popular and enduring pop icon, Rita Yahan-Farouz, known the world over simply as Rita, will appear at UCLA’s Royce Hall, along with a special band assembled for this tour.

Star Choreographer Hofesh Shechter Discusses His “Political Mother”

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on October 18, 2011

Concerts celebrate Ash Grove’s golden legacy

By Kirk Silsbee
Published on April 17, 2008

Ed Pearl, 70, silver-haired and feisty, will forever be associated with the Ash Grove, the folk club he opened 50 years ago with a $5,000 investment, despite the fact that the venue's been closed for a quarter century.

"My life," Pearl said, "has been a series of fortuitous accidents. And," he ruefully adds, "not-so fortuitous."

The Idan Raichel Project in Los Angeles

By Danielle Berrin
Published on December 27, 2007

Israeli music sensation Idan Raichel, creator of The Idan Raichel Project shares his thoughts with Danielle Berrin of Jewish Journal.com before his Nov. 2007 performance at UCLA's Royce Hall

Botox-aided pianist: Oscar documentary nod a ‘gas’

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 8, 2007

"I became a [musician] because she gave me two choices: to either become the first Jewish president of the United States or a great concert pianist," Fleischer added.

Lecture Stirs Anger

By Tom Tugend
Published on February 27, 2003

A public lecture by a visiting scholar on the UCLA campus usually doesn't make much of a ripple, but nearly all of the 1,800 seats in Royce Hall were taken and the atmosphere was electric when professor Edward W. Said stepped up to the lectern.