Elliott Smith “From A Basement On The Hill” Anti “From A Basement On The Hill,” the new and final album by Elliott Smith, is heavy with mixed emotions. Read more...

Elliott Smith’s new album will be released next week, almost one year after his death. Is this his final album, or merely the first in what is to be a long string of posthumous releases? Read more...

With blond curly hair and an alternative-band-meets-the-’80s kind of attire, Matt Meredith looks the exact opposite of the Web site designer stereotype. But three years ago, this self-proclaimed “computer nerd,” together with best friend Blake Machado, started a Web designing company called Corporate Green, which has earned him a certain level of notoriety and enough skill to warrant a commanding five figures per project. Read more...

If you’re anything like me, you enjoy reading tabloid magazines. Wait, scratch that ““ you live for reading the tabloids. Now before you judge me as a complete airhead, hear me out. Read more...

UCLA can be a big place, whether you’re a first-year freshman or a super senior. And Los Angeles is even larger. So I’m sure there are lots of questions you must have about the school we call our home and the giant post-modern mess of a city that surrounds it. Read more...

There’s chatter circulating the L.A. theater world, and the rumor is that the new season at the Geffen Playhouse is riskier than in years past. If “Take Me Out,” playing now as part of the 10-year-long American Originals series, is any indication of what is to come, the buzz is right. Read more...

California dreamin’ might not be quite as light and breezy anymore, at least according to the featured artists in this year’s art department show, “Dark Side of the Sun,” curated by some of UCLA’s graduate art students. Read more...