It’s time to realize that Los Angeles is over and the definition of Southern California now is “The O.C.” An afternoon at Fashion Island on Daddy’s credit card with Summer and Marissa far surpasses a visit to the antiquated Westside Pavilion. Read more...

Not many students at UCLA can boast a résumé that includes several released albums. But Franklin Bruno, a philosophy graduate student currently finishing his dissertation, has also made a name for himself in the music industry. Read more...

Sure, the talking chihuahua was cute, but Taco Bell not paying its tomato growers living wages hasn’t sat well with the UCLA community. Now the fast food chain is just a board decision away from getting kicked off campus entirely. Read more...

Multi-instrumentalist and singer Nati Cano has rarely rested in his 42-year career with his mariachi band, Los Camperos. Now the 71-year-old native of Mexico, who will be playing with his band this weekend at the Getty, says he’s retired ““ from work but not from art. Read more...

These pocket-sized mp3 players seemed like a genius invention … until a pair of brothers from New York let everyone know that the batteries may stop working after 18 months. Read more...

In the same way that parents often feel toward their children, fans of a certain musical genre often see their own as the best. Indie rockers are particularly notorious for this musical elitism. Read more...

UCLA Live’s International Theatre Festival has already brought us the likes of the acclaimed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre this season. Now, the festival gets set to shift into high gear again when Berlin’s celebrated avant-garde theater group, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz (or Volksbühne, for short), helmed by famed renegade director Frank Castorf, takes the stage for a three-day stint at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, running Dec. Read more...