What is a man to do after a career spent touring with such rock ‘n’ roll royalty as David Crosby, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan? In the case of former Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn, the next logical direction was a merry band of best-selling authors known as The Rock Bottom Remainders. Read more...

FILM & TV: After the War, Before the Wall: German Cinema, 1945-1960 UCLA Archive April 26-29 The UCLA Film and Television Archive’s film series continues with films made in Germany’s reconstructionist period. Read more...

The band’s name is an oxymoron: Idlewild. As hackneyed and inexpressive as most band names are, this one seems to mean something. Idlewild has punk roots and a lead singer who is heavily into literature. Read more...

Casey Spooner confides that he doesn’t know what day it is, where he is, or what’s going on as he’s talking on the phone. On his first major set of dates with the performance art duo Fischerspooner, the singer is reveling in the adrenaline rush of a wild and successful tour. Read more...

Mobs of screaming fans, paparazzi following your every move and a complete loss of privacy might be the accepted reality for the typical celebrity. But what about authors, people like Sandra Cisneros or Amy Tan, whose names you’ve grown up with but whose faces you don’t recognize?  Authors are a different breed of celebrity, walking the streets everyday completely anonymous to the general population. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, coming to Royce Quad on April 26 and 27, will play host to an astonishing number of these mostly faceless superstars as they sign books and chat with the thousands who flock to this annual literary Lollapalooza. Read more...

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