Maybe it’s time you actually meet the 268 friends on your “Friends” list. No, not through your nifty Web cam. Try some good old-fashioned face-to-face contact. Read more...

The Walkmen “Bows And Arrows” Record Emerging from waves of crashing cymbals and fuzzed-out guitars comes a raw, angry wail. “And when you’re coming around, you’ll be sorry for the things you said,” yells Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of New York post-punk band The Walkmen. Read more...

Textbook companies across the country have fattened their wallets during the past few years by feasting on helpless college students who must overpay for their bounded stacks of paper. Read more...

Not many students at UCLA can boast a résumé that includes several released albums. But Franklin Bruno, a philosophy graduate student currently finishing his dissertation, has also made a name for himself in the music industry. Read more...

It’s time to realize that Los Angeles is over and the definition of Southern California now is “The O.C.” An afternoon at Fashion Island on Daddy’s credit card with Summer and Marissa far surpasses a visit to the antiquated Westside Pavilion. Read more...

Multi-instrumentalist and singer Nati Cano has rarely rested in his 42-year career with his mariachi band, Los Camperos. Now the 71-year-old native of Mexico, who will be playing with his band this weekend at the Getty, says he’s retired ““ from work but not from art. Read more...