I’ve really got to hand it to Hideki Matsui. For a professional baseball player, he has pretty respectable musical taste. The New York Yankee outfielder’s favorites include The Who, Lenny Kravitz and the Beatles. Read more...

Stevie Wonder “A Time to Love” Universal Motown Group After 10 years without a new album, many artists would be calling it quits. Turns out Stevie Wonder was just biding his time. Read more...

Frequenters of the Sunset Strip expect to find their live bands at exclusive clubs, not jamming for fans at the local record store. But the latter is often the scene at Sea Level Records, an independent music store owned and operated by Tod Clifford since 2002. Read more...

"Paradise Now" Directed by Hany Abu-Assad Warner Independent Pictures Three men stand on a grassy hill arguing about the evenness of a newly installed car bumper. Read more...

Celebrity activism has long been a part of American culture. From Jane Fonda’s appearance with the Viet Cong in 1971 to Kanye West’s televised rant on the president’s disaffection for black people, the famous have long embraced the role of aspiring world changer. Read more...

At first glance, a flock of Canadian geese, Lord Byron’s daughter and a terrorist attack on a train carrying nuclear waste don’t appear to have much in common. Read more...

People have long associated Los Angeles with Hollywood and major studio films. But for David E. James, that isn’t enough. The author and USC film professor believes the city is getting left out of the credits when it comes to its contributions to avant-garde cinema, saying that many view San Francisco and New York as the centers of American experimental and minor cinema. Read more...