Last Tuesday afternoon, massive text messages were sent, Facebook statuses were updated, and movie fans across the country and world seemed to collectively gasp in shock over the tragic death of Academy Award-nominated actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead in his apartment at the young age of 28. Read more...

The upcoming drawings exhibition at the Getty Center turns on itself, exposing each piece's acquisition history as well as its creation. Read more...

Nestled above the hills only about four miles away from campus, the Getty Museum functions as an integral part of the UCLA experience. Read more...

On 2000's "The Covers Record," Cat Power, the alias for singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, traded in the shambolic indie rock of her early career for a less-is-more aesthetic, playing nearly every song with a piano or guitar, unaccompanied. Read more...

Director, producer, screenwriter ... film preservationist? Read more...

While browsing through the fiction authors at Barnes & Noble this weekend, I came to the "Smiths." Next to Dodi Smith, author of "I Capture the Castle," a book I read solely because I had heard that J.K. Rowling liked it, was a book by Meta Smith. Read more...

He's ignored half of the time. Read more...