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Mexican graphic design gets a broad overview. Plus, the murals of Santa Barbara and an artist takes on the L.A. River, in our weekly arts newsletter

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's poetry.

Rumi was a 13th-century Muslim, but he's the most downloaded poet in America. Now a Dallas chorus - with an Iranian composer and a Syrian digital artist - has created a rapturous version of Rumi's poetry.

Continue celebrating Cinco de Mayo on the 6th. Screen films from 1982. Listen to live music and DJs at a Dublab event. Laugh along to the humor of David Sedaris. Get ideas on how to treat the moms in your life this weekend.

We’ve gathered a selection of uniquely Los Angeles gift ideas spanning the entire city and beyond, all inviting you to support local businesses and artists who call L.A. home.

Recorded in 1971, the lost album by the Meters’ guitarist and co-founder plays like a document of what happened, and also what could have happened—a heart-on-your-sleeve acoustic career from a funk icon whose feelings always seemed to be hidden in his riffs.

Leo Nocentelli of The Meters recorded a folk album in the early '70s that will finally get released via Light In The Attic on November 19.

Alamy Director Myriam Verreault’s Innu drama following a pair of childhood friends (Sharon Ishpatao Fontaine and Yamie Grégoire) whose friendship is tested as their lives evolve in very different ways gives new meaning to the idea that what is specific can be universal. Verreault and co-screenwriter Naomi Fontaine draw audiences into the story of two girls who share the same promise of many their age: to be there for each other forever. Using their tightknit First Nations community as a bac...