No one can bring you the entire universe like an astronomy grad student, and lately they have been working to show you even more. In addition to their regular Wednesday night planetarium shows, astronomy graduate students have been searching the skies for interesting and original presentations to bring to audiences each week. Read more...

“Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid” Directed by Dwight H. Little Columbia Pictures Sometimes sequels work because everything just comes together. (Think “Alien” and “Alien 2.”) Sometimes sequels don’t work because they were bad the first time and only can get worse. Read more...

Dressed conservatively in a navy polo shirt, light-blue slacks and brown leather loafers, 81-year-old veteran comedic writer Ben Starr is seated comfortably cross-legged in his warm-hued modest condo in West Los Angeles when he says the last thing I would have expected him to say during our interview: “I happen to be a freak.” But Starr is simply referring to his lifelong passion of writing comedy, a passion he considers abnormal, as he says most writers in the business do not truly enjoy writing. Read more...

From his modesty to his laid-back attitude, Lou Barlow has refused to let the fact he is often referred to as the “prince of lo-fi rock” influence his personality. Read more...

The music industry as we know it may well be a sinking ship. Worldwide music sales were down 7.6 percent last year, the fourth consecutive year they’ve dropped since 2000. Read more...

Few could anticipate the transformation of rock quintet O.A.R. from a local Ohio State frat band to a frequent and respected headliner across the country. O.A.R.’s moniker stands for “Of a Revolution,” which has so far turned out to be an apt description of the band’s success. Read more...

There’s an old journalism joke that “news is what happens to editors.” The idea is that small stories happen so frequently that the ones that end up on the pages of a newspaper are only there because they happened in the presence of someone with some control over the content of those news pages. Read more...