Some people have been following Busdriver since 2001, and others only get to know about him now. But it's never too late to discover new music, even if it's more than 10 years into an artist's already-successful career.

Busdriver's newest album from Fake Four promises to "shock...

New York-based historian, photographer, and designer Joanna Ebenstein is the mastermind behind "Morbid Anatomy", a blog that merges the seemingly disparate fields of art and science through a unique examination of death and medicine. As part of her research, Ebenstein has traveled the world in order...

Anyone who's taken a plane flight over L.A. knows that its landscape isn't marked by rivers, crop fields, or cows. Rather, it's distinguished by an inordinate number of swimming pools, collectively forming an iconic staple of SoCal living that's been explored by David Hockney, Herb Ritts, and countless other artists...

When it comes to gay culture, the term "cruising" doesn't mean taking a leisurely boat trip, exotic sea voyage, or oceanic journey. It means something quite different.

Filed under "Gay/Nature/Photography," Cruising by Chad States (with text by Gordon Grent Ingram, Ph.D., and Alec Soth) is a visual exploration...

As if most images of L.A. weren't weird enough, now there's a whole new crop of pictures that shed light on a gritty Los Angeles -- in glorious black and white. They're rare, archival snapshots of a (mostly) mid-century L.A., documenting an era, landscape, and zeitgeist that no longer exist.

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In The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses, Dr. Paul Koudounaris gives us an intimate understanding of the sites where bones of dead people are placed together en masse. What may seem like a gory theme for a book...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, the Pixies redefined the alt-rock genre with stripped-down tunes, biting lyrics, and an unguarded attitude that inspired bands like Nirvana, Radiohead, and the Strokes, just to name a few. Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering formed the band...

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Otherwise known as the Fifth Beatle, Sir George Martin produced every one of the Beatles' albums except their last, Let it Be (1970). Having worked closely with the Fab Four for so many years, it should come as no surprise that the English pop-culture knight has...

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Whether they're showing off their skateboards, sneakers, guns, dirt bikes, or big hair, the kids in Live...Suburbia! all know what it's like to be raised in a community that's neither rural nor urban, but a world unto itself. Written by pop-culture authors Anthony Pappalardo...

Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow is a horror novel for young adults that chronicles the misadventures of a group of oddball kids living in the spooky town of Widowsbury. The book is written and illustrated by

Halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, in the heart of the Deep South, there's an unassuming but charming town filled with good, old-fashioned Southern hospitality. Greenville, South Carolina is home to some of the best restaurants, parks, and festivals in the area and is attracting more visitors every year.

Marnie Weber has worked in just about every medium, from photography and video to performance-based art and installation. But while the LA-based artist's unique brand of sculpture, collage, and assemblage might appear to be redefining multimedia, it's part of an ever-evolving tradition that defines California art, rising above an already-transcendent...

This week's Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA) might be confused with June's Los Angeles Film Festival (LAFF). Film Independent produces the annual LAFF at LA Live, which screens films that will later be honored at the Independent Spirit Awards. DFFLA, meanwhile, doesn't have an awards...

Fans of mid-century Polynesian pop culture and Angelenos aching for a getaway recently made their way down to a three-day celebration at the 2010 Tiki Oasis at the Crowne Plaza San Diego. Considering San Diego is...

Most people know Edith Bouvier Beale from the Maysles brothers' captivating 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, in which she and her mother bravely shared their lovably quirky daily life and unconventional values through a fascinating and complex relationship. Relatives of First...

Over 135 years after Andrew Carnegie helped make Pittsburgh one of the world's leading steel suppliers, the Iron City is still working to shed its antiquated coal-hole stereotype. Yet despite its disadvantages (or perhaps, because of them), the Western Pennsylvania metropolis is...

John Lurie has starred in a string of Jim Jarmusch films in the '80s, wrote and directed the cult-hit TV series Fishing With John, and composed dozens of albums and film scores. Yet not only has the modern-day Renaissance man conquered the...

If NASA's Dr. Andrew E. Johnson ever gets to walk on Mars, he'll have no problem finding the right shoes. Johnson has a footwear collection that has earned him the tag "Imelda Marcos of JPL."

While he is one of the space...

Film Independent's annual Los Angeles Film Festival screens hopefuls for the Spirit Awards, the indie film community's answer to that other big awards show. This year, the non-profit arts organization is trading in the festival's usual West Side theaters for venues around Downtown. Considering how difficult...