When Amy Adrion decided to apply to film school, she gave it one shot. “I only applied to UCLA,” she said. “I didn’t apply anywhere else.” But it wasn’t the Hollywood lifestyle and L.A. Read more...

With the controversy that has surrounded the art collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer for the last 70 or so years, it’s a miracle their works are even on display in the United States at all. Read more...

Eddie Argos is out to save rock and roll. Here’s why: Armed with little more than a decent speaking voice, an album with only three songs passing the three-minute mark, and a complete disregard for what qualifies music as “good” anymore, he has taken the pretentiousness of many of today’s best artists and shoved it right back in their faces. Read more...

Miles Marsico and Jack De Sena met in the wild. The first-year acting students in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television were both voice actors in the latest Disney animated movie “The Wild” (Marsico as Duke the kangaroo and De Sena as Eze the hippo), jobs that were not easy to land. Read more...

What Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle described as “erosion” when referring to the state of his band is only an afterthought considering the repair that comes in the form of the band’s fifth and final album, “Just Like the Fambly Cat.” Though the band might have broken up for good, it stayed together for a final comeback, and a shimmering one at that. Read more...

Although the origins behind the personage of Gnarls Barkley remain intriguingly undisclosed, it is no secret that “St. Elsewhere,” the first collaboration album between Atlanta rapper and singer Cee-Lo and mix-master producer Danger Mouse is likely to be the most genre-bending album of the summer. Read more...

Hollywood’s famed Egyptian Theatre actually consists of two theaters ““ the lavish, 616-seat Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre, and the lesser known, 78-seat Spielberg Theatre. The cynical explanation for this is that it allows the Egyptian to hold less appealing screenings in the smaller theater without having to operate the larger one. Read more...