Expansive exhibit paints new portrait of relationship Painters Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro have individually had their works exhibited in museums around the country. But the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new exhibit, “Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885,” marks the first time these close friends have had more than 60 of their paintings displayed side by side in an exhibit chronicling each artist’s influence on the other. Read more...

I’ve really got to hand it to Hideki Matsui. For a professional baseball player, he has pretty respectable musical taste. The New York Yankee outfielder’s favorites include The Who, Lenny Kravitz and the Beatles. Read more...

Stevie Wonder “A Time to Love” Universal Motown Group After 10 years without a new album, many artists would be calling it quits. Turns out Stevie Wonder was just biding his time. Read more...

Frequenters of the Sunset Strip expect to find their live bands at exclusive clubs, not jamming for fans at the local record store. But the latter is often the scene at Sea Level Records, an independent music store owned and operated by Tod Clifford since 2002. Read more...

"Paradise Now" Directed by Hany Abu-Assad Warner Independent Pictures Three men stand on a grassy hill arguing about the evenness of a newly installed car bumper. Read more...

Celebrity activism has long been a part of American culture. From Jane Fonda’s appearance with the Viet Cong in 1971 to Kanye West’s televised rant on the president’s disaffection for black people, the famous have long embraced the role of aspiring world changer. Read more...

At first glance, a flock of Canadian geese, Lord Byron’s daughter and a terrorist attack on a train carrying nuclear waste don’t appear to have much in common. Read more...