Jon Robertson, chair of the music department for 10 years, is having a serious case of déjà vu. The departmental cuts he has had to make as a result of California’s ailing economy have been all-too-familiar. Read more...

Just over a month ago, Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin did what not many of the pierced and tattooed expect of their punk rock heroes. On Aug. Read more...

You wouldn’t know it by the band’s thrashy dance-until-you-break sound, but the first song Hot Hot Heat’s drummer Paul Hawley ever learned was the famous pre-school tune “You Are My Sunshine.” Of course, Hawley has moved on since then. Read more...

The Cooperage is that little UCLA venue that resembles The Max from “Saved by the Bell,” a place where you might find anything from a musician performing on tabletops to a band member sitting down with the audience eating a pizza after the show. Read more...

It’s not just any mall. Sure, the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade has more than its fair share of overpriced bookstores, blindingly lit window fronts filled with back-to-school halter-top specials, and an entire army of hairsprayed preteens ready at a second’s notice to shoot up that flirtatious right eyebrow. But the mall also has something that lures even the broke, the anti-social and occasionally, the police, night after night, mainly between the hours of 6 to 10 p.m. Read more...

Starting off the new Geffen Playhouse season is Stephen Jeffreys’ “I Just Stopped By to See the Man,” a three-person play about the power of the blues. Read more...

UCLA is undeniably one of the most diverse and dynamic college campuses in the country. It plays host to Nobel Prize-winning professors, Division I sports teams, a happening social scene and even an on-campus museum ““ the last being the least obvious. Read more...