By Shana Dines Daily Bruin Reporter [email protected] For a band coming out of Richmond, Va., Los Angeles can be intimidating and scary, but at the same time it can be the Emerald City at the other side of the rainbow. Read more...

By C.J. Yu DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected]   Tokyopop Onizuka Eikichi, the main character of the “GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)” manga, can be seen as soon as “GTO” hits the shelves everywhere in English. Read more...

By C.J. Yu DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected]   Already a hit in Japan with over 30 million copies sold, the highly anticipated “Initial D” manga series has finally arrived in the United States in an English translated version. Read more...

By Andrew Lee Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] For an up-and-coming band, the hometown inevitably gives the group an extra semblance of identity. But when Washington-based Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard sang, “Is it the city of angels or demons?” on last year’s “The Photo Album,” he’s made clear one simple truth: in general, indie rockers hate L.A. Read more...

Howard Ho [email protected] Here for more articles by Howard Ho   A man walked into a bar. Ouch. This is the largely unmemorable educational column, ready to fight the barbarians at the gateway to your brain. Read more...

  Courtesy of The Actor’s Gang “The Exonerated” The Actors’ Gang Through June 16 (323) 465-0566 The thought of spending the rest of one’s life on death row, waiting to be executed, is a terrifying one. Read more...

MANDY WHITING/Daily Bruin By Sara Mortimer Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] UCLA students get to be too sexy for their shirts this Tuesday, as student designers and models shake it on the catwalk in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...