PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Randy Newman at Royce Hall

Randy Newman's best, most pointed songs usually will come around again with enough time, timely once more either from history repeating itself, or mankind living up to his worst expectations. At his concert Friday for UCLA Live at Royce Hall, his quietly wounded and defiant "Louisiana 1927" told of another generation's devastating flood, but had new poignancy in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And, sadly, the biting, hilarious detail of 1972's "Political Science" may never lose its relevanc...

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