A&E

REVOLUTIONS: The UAG exhibit spotlights political and thought-provoking artwork from 1960’s Argentina.

FESTIVAL: The Fourth Annual Antstock music competition gives talented Zot-Zotters a chance at UCI fame.

I lost my virginity on Oct. 31, around 12:15 a.m. at the Nuart Theater in Santa Monica. My “Rocky Horror Picture Show” virginity, that is. It was an experience that I will never forget. The show included a play of how Tim Burton would have made the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” a striptease, a costume contest and a man in a Princess Leia bikini similar to the one in “Star Wars Episode VI.”

HEAVENLY: Tegan and Sara’s new album, proves that they still haven’t had enough of silly love songs.

LEGEND: The King of Pop is immortalized in Kenny Ortega’s concert documentary of his last performances.

ARTSY: The indie comedy “(Untitled)” is a witty satiric critique of the worlds of modern art and music.

Let’s get this out of the way: Some of my favorite musicians died before they were 35 – some musicians that I’m going to highlight in this column. Kurt Cobain pretty much ran my musical life back in elementary school; I would listen to every band he ever namedropped. “In Utero” is my immediate answer when anyone asks me what my favorite album of all-time is.

THEATRE: UCI Drama production of “The Laramie Project” tackles issues like gay rights and hate crimes.

FAILURE: Mira Nair’s new Amelia Earheart biopic never manages to make it off the runway.

In Culiacan, Mexico —a hub of the Mexican narc-trade — Jose Espinoza produces works of art for many of the areas wealthiest, and most notorious, citizens. From The Birth of Venus in the domed ceiling over a Jacuzzi to twenty-foot-tall portraits of flamenco dancers to exquisite religious imagery surrounding the graves of drug-trade casualties, his works add a classical beauty to the mansions and mausoleums begotten by the local trade in heroin and marijuana.

FAR OUT: Taking a trip to Middle Earth, with puppets as our guides: not a hallucination, but a much-beloved play.

INDIE ROCK: With “Embryonic,” the Lips return to an older, darker sound. But is it worth listening to?