Sunday afternoon, a series of on-campus events paying tribute to the Maquiladores murders of Juarez came to a close with a lecture introducing artist Veronica Castillo’s altarpiece “Lamento por las Mujeres de Juarez (Elegy for the Women of Juarez).” More than 300 women in Mexico have been murdered over the past 10 years in what remains an unsolved mystery. Read more...

Sometime around the age of 13, when a combination of societal expectation and hormonal fluctuation so decrees, trick-or-treating on Halloween ends. Disapproving neighbors accuse you of being “too old” to beg for candy. Read more...

Driven to the ground. That is how Frank Manis, tour guide on the Haunted Hollywood Ghost Walk Tour, described the demise of the Haunted Hearse tour that preceded his current business. Read more...

With fog machines abounding and ornate candles illuminating the route to the bathroom, Bar Sinister is the spot in Los Angeles for finding your inner goth persona. Read more...

Those who venture into Kerckhoff Coffee House on Tuesday nights will find the familiar study spot transformed into a venue for experimental music. Each Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Read more...

A man passed away last week. He was a man whom I, like thousands of others, had never met, but felt I knew as intimately as my best friends, as I felt he knew me. Read more...

With all the hype The Strokes have been receiving in the media these days, including recently being named by Rolling Stone as “the best young rock band on the planet,” it would be easy to think their sold-out, Wednesday-night performance at the Hollywood Palladium would have really been something special. Read more...