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This past week was Santa Monica College's very first drag week – and I'm not talking about car races. I'm referring to drag clothing, or, to put it another way, cross-dressing. For those unfamiliar with the terms, it's the act of dressing in the opposite sex. 

It is no big thing to be an underrated band.You have your core of devoted fans, are honored by glowing reviews from music critics and you set yourself in a nice little niche. But when a member of a legendary iconic band decides to join your band because you rock, it can be a huge honor but also an awkward situation.  

Where we last left off, The Strokes became the poster boys for coolness and the revamped New York City of the early 2000s. But what of the other bands that came out at the same time as them?  Some made it and some didn't but that garage rock scene that emerged has evolved from psychedelic folk scenes to preppy pop. 

Wes  Anderson and Jason Schwartzman adapted Roald Dahl's fictional story "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and brought it to animated life. This past Saturday at the Third   Street Promenade Apple store, in promotion of the new film, actor Jason Schwartzman came out to meet fans and answer their burning questions.  

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is a legendary song and dance that the Thrill the World organization has paid tribute to over the past year.  The goal of the organization is to break the Guinness World Record for largest simultaneous dance; they will use Michael Jackson's hit song.  

Leaving Hwy. 62 and the Town of Yucca Valley, Calif., I headed northwest on a meandering river of tar and gravel surrounded by barren hills, jutting sedimentary rocks, and Joshua trees. My destination? Pioneertown and the Third Annual Global Cooling Music Festival hosted by the environmental organization Clean Air Clear Stars. The event was held at the legendary Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace, a restaurant and bar that features dancing and a long history of live music.

An Education is a dark Coming-of-Age romance between a young, intellectual girl Jenny (Carey Mulligan) and a delightfully charming, but much older man David (Peter Sarsgaard). It is based on an autobiographical memoir, sharing the same title, written by the British journalist Lynn Barber. Nick Hornby wrote the screenplay, also known for writing novels turned into movies, Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and High Fidelity.

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With Los Angeles' National Park currently under the scrutiny of California's slim budget and multiple forest fires, FYF Festival is here to help raise awareness. Previously known as F*** Yeah Festival, a one of a kind, independently run production, brought in thousands of music junkies sporting cut off shorts, Ray Bans, and fedoras, this past Saturday, Sept. 5.

Tweeting? Is it for the birds? Well, to be completely honest, when I first heard about Twitter last year, I was completely clueless about the point of having a Twitter account. Soon after that, it all of a sudden became cool to Twitter.

Green Day, the punks from Berkeley, California who helped begin the pop punk genre in the early '90s are back with their new album "21st Century Breakdown" and it could not be more common and pathetic.