During the evolution from an experimental, eight-piece studio project into a critically acclaimed live ensemble, one would expect a band to go through a great deal of changes. Read more...

Tom Garrett didn’t know if he had been admitted to UCLA as a transfer student when he decided to move to Los Angeles from Colorado to develop his music label/concert photo/promotion company Bandvibe.com. Read more...

A walk down to the UCLA Hammer Museum will reveal an unusual transformation of its courtyard. The site has been turned into a construction site for a house, a tropical home designed more than 50 years ago in Europe that has stood proudly on two subsequent continents. Read more...

At a recent family dinner, I was lamenting the challenge of writing a weekly entertainment column. “How about something on “˜Desperate Housewives’?” my mother suggested. “Maybe about how women love the show because it portrays females in control over the men in their lives,” she added, as my dad continued quietly eating his mashed potatoes. Read more...

Sometimes brevity is impossible. Anyone seeking to summarize Noah Baumbach’s new film, “The Squid and the Whale,” quickly becomes acquainted with this fact. Above all, complexity prevails. Read more...

For documentary filmmaker Marc Levin, ignorance isn’t quite bliss. It’s inspiration. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Levin stepped into a cab in New York City where, to his surprise, the driver revealed his steadfast belief that the Jews were in part, or even entirely, responsible for the attacks that September. Read more...

Marlon Brando was perhaps best known for his legendary acting career and his notoriously reclusive nature. But few may know he also moonlighted as an author. Read more...