It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

This time of year, the general pubic is often reminded of Halloween's pagan roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain. But there is also a thriving pagan community in the United States, both on the web ...

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art has developed a healthy reputation for itself as a viable platform for music not normally heard anywhere else— its annual Noise Festival is proof of that. Now ...

A New Form of Beauty, Heresie, … If I Die, I Die, The Moon Looked Down and Laughed and Over the Rainbow (Mute) Gavin Friday, leader of the long-defunct Virgin Prunes, is nothing if not a goth-punk ...

Rewind the tape to 1913 Paris, when the premiere of "The Rite of Spring" changed classical music and dance forever. No less than Igor Stravinsky's dissonant score, Vaslav Nijinsky's iconoclastic ...