3:15 p.m. ““ I drive toward Sunset Boulevard in search of Star Maps, which are usually available on every other street along the strip. 3:30 p.m. Read more...

Hal Willner, UCLA Live’s 2003-2004 Artist in Residence, treats the multi-artist compilation a lot more seriously than most others. After all, while many of the generic multi-artist discs you see scattered in bargain bins are little more than shameless cash-in attempts, for Willner, the medium is an attempt to explore the unexplored. Read more...

In most cases, it would be difficult to describe a movie like “Bubba Ho-tep” without relying on the cliché and mundane descriptions that give critics a bad name. Read more...

If there has to be a root of all evil, it might as well be money. A decrease in UCLA Live’s state funding this year was naturally followed by an increase in student ticket prices. Read more...

The idea now sounds almost too typical. During the summer after his first year of college at UCLA, Don Coscarelli decided to make a movie. Since then, the results have been anything but ordinary. Read more...

“Once Upon a Time in the Midlands” Sony Pictures Classics Directed by Shane Meadows “Once Upon a Time in the Midlands” is a film with a bit of an identity crisis. Read more...

Beulah “Yoko” Velocette Records Somehow, some way, “Yoko” works. Beulah’s fourth record is neither a collection of catchy singles nor a case of the sum being greater than its parts. Read more...