A Bright Nowhere: Journeying Into Improvisation

Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new,...

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn...

Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who...

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based...

"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time."

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as...

Then, now, where? how?

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is...

In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang...