Monday, March 9

Googlewhat?

If you typed the words “necrophiliacs” and “scrunchies” into a Google search, they’d produce a Googlewhack. For the majority of the world, the term Googlewhack, which refers to a Google search that yields one and only one result, means absolutely nothing. Read more...


Mean Girl

Comedian Kathy Griffin has never been shy about speaking her mind. In fact, it’s been her irreverent sense of humor and love of celebrity gossip that’s kept her in the public eye, even if only in the peripheral. Read more...


Soundbite

50 Cent “The Massacre” Interscope 50 Cent is arguably the biggest rapper in the world. His records sell by the millions to adoring fans from Tokyo to Norman, Oklahoma. Read more...


Film emphasizes pursuit of dreams

Many UCLA students are not strangers to parental pressures to excel in everything from athletics to academics. But sometimes being on the pre-med track for Harvard Medical School just won’t cut it when your true desire is to be a filmmaker or a world-class athlete. Read more...


Band finds success as “˜failure’

While perusing a band’s biography on its Web site, the last thing one would expect to find is a proclamation by the lead singer and guitarist that he has made a conscious choice to be a “total failure.” In the world of Okkervil River singer and guitarist Will Sheff, though, this is all part of the ride. Read more...



Big business blues

With the rise in popularity of services such as TiVo and Netflix, it’s safe to say that many Americans center their lives around the expedited and convenient use of media, especially television. Read more...