L.J. Williamson

Grand Park's third annual  Dia de los Muertos celebration is its most overtly political yet.  Starting with 10 altars in 2012, the exhibit of tributes to the dead — some personal, some issue-driven — has now grown to include 50 different exhibits, many of which have cultural or social justice themes......

We know actor Jack Black for his "best band in the world" bluster as half of Tenacious D, and for his on-screen persona: a heavy metal pothead. But Black also happens to be a patron of the arts. Or just stuff that he thinks is cool.  Black and his wife......

Who's cool? Who still knows what's up? Not you. You used to rock and roll all night and party ev-er-ee day. Now you're home by eight o'clock on school nights, and weekends too. Because you've got kids.  At least, that's how it feels during the dark moments. The moments in......

In the dark and cloudless skies above California City, a million stars wink their approval as armor-clad lovers stroll through scrub and tire fires. Nearby, while zombie hunters complete their rounds and nuclear fallout victims tend their gaping sores, strains of death metal waft in over a brisk and chilling......