Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the husband and wife directing team of last year's independent success story, "Little Miss Sunshine," followed up their Academy Award-winning indie film with a Gap commercial. Read more...

While it is known that UCLA prides itself on promoting diversity within the dorms, the classes and the campus organizations, the school also promotes diversity in music. Read more...

When I first came to UCLA, I became entranced with everything nonacademic. Read more...

While the loudest and most advertised concerts in Los Angeles will probably be held in the Hollywood Bowl or the Staples Center, the city offers a more fine-grained perspective on live music you won't see advertised on the freeway. Read more...

Common conceptions of jazz music typically evoke images of time-tested, weary performers in small, dimly-lit bars of the 1950s and '60s. Read more...

When Tim Westergren created Pandora.com, he was thinking about musicians. Read more...

Stephen Tabaquin checks in with his friends at Berkeley, CSU Long Beach, Cal Poly Pomona and UC Irvine daily without racking up any mileage. Bradley Ostrander knows everyone's birthday without ever having to ask, while Naveed Mahboobian can drop his friends a line without ever licking a stamp. Read more...