LOS ANGELES — Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC’s wildly popular “Mad Money” program, recently spoke with columnist Andy Tien about his life and offered financial advice to USC students. His show aired live on Sept. 7th from Bovard Auditorium.

AUSTIN, Texas — Seemingly coming out of nowhere in the wide world of film is the wild and hilarious “Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down.” Making a brief theatrical run on the festival circuit earlier this year, the film garnered enough attention to grab a few awards and is now out on DVD.

KINGSTON, R.I. — A woman scorned is a force to be reckoned with. An author scorned is a bumbling idiot.
Don D. Davis, the author of “Professors As Con Artists,” is one such idiot. Unable to get into a Ph.D.

Unorthodox-sports comedies are nothing new. And in some cases, when Ben Stiller quips something about “Joanie loves Chachi” after pummeling an opponent with a dodgeball, it can be quite amusing. Sadly, such is not the case with “Balls of Fury,” a table-tennis tale that just misses the mark with too many unfunny one-liners and a dull plotline. But on the flip side, the film does star Mr. More Cowbell himself Christopher Walken. And he’s wearing a kimono. Can’t be that bad, right?

No doubt about it, M.I.A. is a one-woman powerhouse. A globe-trotting, political activist who can drop a sick beat like the best of ‘em, M.I.A., aka Maya Arulpragasm, the Sri Lankan-born London-based rapper, shows no sign of a sophomore slump on ‘Kala,’ which finds M.I.A. at her most culturally aware and dense in sound. The album is hot, its message hotter — just don’t count on anything as immediaet and dance floor-ready as ‘Arular.’

What’s truly amazing about “In Rainbows,” Radiohead’s apparent record-label-killer, is how much it actually promotes the survival of the record itself — an entity which used to aspire to greatness in the whole, rather than its radio-single parts.