In a scene from Tobias Wolff’s latest novel, “Old School,” a group of teenage boys are huddled around a fire in the lodge of their elite New England prep school while feisty writer Ayn Rand vehemently argues with the main character, a student consumed by literature, on the artistic merit of Ernest Hemingway. Read more...

In the arena of comedy, he is regarded as the go-to guy for physicality. His bragging rights extend to being chosen as the “Coolest Comic of 2003″ by Stuff Magazine. Read more...

“Please do not clean this room!!! Or throw anything away. Thank you.” Scrawled on a small scrap of paper and taped onto a wall of his exhibition room, 31-year-old Edgar Arceneaux’s note to the Hammer Museum’s cleaning crew shows that he is cautious about how others perceive his space, which will serve as his exhibit and personal studio until the end of February. Read more...

In “Drawings of Removal,” the artist is actually part of the exhibit. That is if Edgar Arceneaux refrains from removing himself from the art space where he occasionally drops by on a whim to add more sketches to the unfinished canvas. Read more...

There’s no reason children’s music can’t rock, at least in Dan Zanes’ opinion. Zanes, his bandmates and friends will be performing their brand of folksy rock music for kids this Saturday and Sunday at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall. Read more...

Most major record labels could learn a thing or two from British singer Jem about how to make a great album and save quite a bit of money in the process. Read more...

Even a sore back won’t keep this woman down. Ruth Price, UCLA jazz vocal instructor and owner of Los Angeles’s only seven-night-a-week non-profit jazz club, The Jazz Bakery, mentioned offhandedly that she is going in for back surgery soon. Read more...