For every artist that breaks into the public eye, at least 10 are doomed to obscurity, despite having ample talent and a unique approach to music. Read more...

Bread and Porridge 2315 Wilshire Blvd. $10-$20 Brunch is the best meal of the day. It’s less pretentious than dinner, and it offers the selection of lunch. Read more...

With the fall quarter almost half through, only faint memories of wild summer nights remain. But two UCLA students have captured their all-night summer sessions on film ““ and it may soon find its way into theaters. Read more...

“Wolfgang Tillmans” UCLA Hammer Museum Open until Jan. 7 (Out of 5) Objects like socks and houses may not be the first things one thinks about when it comes to art, but under Wolfgang Tillmans’ watchful camera lens, these everyday materials become something more transcendent. Read more...

Think you know rock ‘n’ roll? Think again. The Crank film club, a graduate student society through the UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, will be educating rock fans (and even the musically curious) through a series of rock films hosted at the James Bridges Theater at 8 p.m. Read more...

You know why I’m a fan of Lester Bangs? Not because he’s the greatest music journalist to ever have written, not because he stuck it to Rolling Stone by getting fired and starting his own magazine, and not because he was a cooler-than-cool character in “Almost Famous.” I love Lester Bangs because as far as I know, he’s the only person with enough balls to talk trash about Led Zeppelin. Read more...

Once upon the year 2001, in the land of Burbank, a man emerged from secret halls where imagination turns into reality. Never before this time had this man, nor any other, journeyed through the pass called Sepulveda to a special training ground in order to equip talented new acolytes in the secret arts of those secret halls. Read more...