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When you cross a concept album by independent Swedish songwriters with a stage full of garbage, and the themes of fame and love, and set it in the future, you get JUNK. Read more...

Whoever said museums were dull was seriously mistaken. Tonight at the Hammer Museum’s bimonthly “Big Time” event, the featured attraction will be a screening of Wes Anderson’s new film “The Darjeeling Limited,” but the entertainment doesn’t stop there. Read more...

THURSDAY Oct. 4 FILM&TV “Lars and the Real Girl” James Bridges Theater 7:30 p.m., FREE Everyone is buzzing about this heart-warming indie starring Academy Award nominee Ryan Gosling as an emotionally troubled man who falls for a life-size doll whom he thinks is a real woman. Read more...

Stroll through Westwood on a sunny day, and you'll find lines of people waiting to get into one of the frozen yogurt shops that have taken over the town's dessert scene. Read more...

Seymour Hersh is famous for many things, but being an optimist is not one of them. Read more...

If you swapped the palm trees and beaches of "The O.C." for the sidewalks and skyscrapers of New York City, the result would be "Gossip Girl," the CW's new show based on the series of popular novels by Cecily von Ziegesar that chronicles the life of the Upper East Side's prep-school elite. Read more...