The Los Angeles Convention Center, normally populated by boats and cars, played host last weekend to aspiring screenwriters instead. The 2002 Screenwriting Expo brought together people from across the country to learn about, and then compete in, the art of screenwriting. Read more...

The four women who make up the band Raining Jane are an eclectic group, with interests and time commitments ranging from volleyball to cello performance. But they still have time to promote humanitarian causes with their music. Read more...

The Datsuns is another “The” band, like The Strokes or The Hives, that has stopped in Los Angeles for a show fuelled by messy hair, old clothes and dirty guitars. Read more...

Over the summer, my cousin had me tutor her in English. Mind you, she isn’t in elementary school or high school, she was Popeye applying to medical school, and I was going to be her MCAT can of spinach. Read more...

Detached singing was on the menu at the Cooperage last Thursday. However, most audience members refrained from detaching themselves from their seats over the course of the show. Read more...

Alexander Payne is the writer-director who turned Ferris Bueller into a pathetic, adultering, bumbling high school professor, and abortion into the subject for a screwball comedy. Read more...

Art “¢bull; Part of the UCLA Department of Art lecture series, there will be a lecture by artist Sam Durant, an L.A.-based artist of drawings, models, installations, sculpture and photography. Read more...