Everyone knows you can judge a book by its cover, but they never said anything about the outside of a restaurant. Read more...

Readers commonly turn to books as an escape from life's problems. This weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, however, might leave attendees looking to books to return to reality. Read more...

Last year's rumor circulating at the Indio Empire Polo Field was that the renowned Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was moving to another location. Read more...

"Wounded" aggressively ventures where the nightly news dares not tread. Read more...

Last November, as I stood among the attentive El Rey crowd and listened to Joanna Newsom explain that she was about to play "Ys" in its entirety, I couldn't help but be a little surprised. Read more...

On two critically acclaimed albums and a new EP, the Hamilton, Ontario, based Junior Boys have proven themselves masters of the electro-croon. Now, they're transferring their cool, studio-based textures to the sunburned fields of Indio at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this Sunday. Read more...

Internationally renowned author T.C. Boyle "“ that's Thomas Coraghessan, for those who don't know "“ kindly says it's an accident that he wound up as a professor at USC instead of UCLA, since USC was the first university that offered him a job after he completed his graduate program in Iowa. Read more...