The retail music industry’s misfortunes have claimed another victim. Mojo Records, the used and new music store located on the A-level of Ackerman Union, is closing its doors. Read more...

When everyone who knows him adoringly sings his praises, piano professor Vitaly Margulis can’t help but crack a sly smile and reveal the secret to his long-standing success as a piano teacher. Read more...

The latest issue of Giant Robot magazine doesn’t have a scantily clad Asian model on its cover. In fact, underneath the subtitle, “Asian Pop Culture and Beyond,” a hand-drawn illustration parodies a traditional Japanese painting, its foamy ocean waves replaced by white rabbits. Read more...

Like a congregation of lapsed Catholics suddenly faithful in the face of distressing times, literary lost sheep packed into the Skirball Cultural Center on April 10 to listen to writer Alice Walker read selections from her first collection of poetry in over a decade. Read more...

DKNY, BCBG and FCUK: Get ready to meet your newest competitor in the world of fashion: FAST. Cue the lights. Polish the catwalk. It’s time to sashay and shantay with the newest creations from student designers at this year’s Fashion And Student Trends’ fashion show, “Addiction,” Monday, April 21 in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...

Michael Chabon, serving as the guest editor of Dave Eggers’ literary journal “McSweeney’s,” transformed the journal throughout. Abandoning the familiar shape, font and overall style of previous issues, the 10th installment of the journal is Chabon’s personal brainchild. Read more...

With three quick snaps of her fingers and a sharp fling of her thick black hair, Alice Tong, 22, set the night into motion. Tong, an ethnomusicology graduate from UCLA and jazz singer fresh to the L.A. Read more...