Scorsese, who also directed another seminal concert documentary, "The Last Waltz," opens the film with quick cuts of hasty preparations in a gritty black-and-white picture, finalizing a set list and positioning the cameras. When a grip tells him the position of a light might overheat if focused in a certain way on Jagger, the director humorously says, "We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him." Read more...

There are only so many hours a shopper can spend scouring Third Street Promenade and Westwood Village. Read more...

Every morning, third-year computer science student Matt Sperry wakes up to a big picture of Kurt Russell astride a motorcycle, clad in a leather vest and an eye patch. Read more...

The common conception of the American musical is little Austrian children running through fields, chimney sweeps tap-dancing on rooftops, and the ever-present rain in Spain, but HOOLIGAN Theatre Company's production of "Bat Boy: The Musical" features blood, violence, incest and an interspecies orgy. Read more...

With a mathematics degree and a dread of writing and public speaking, UCLA alumnus Philip Yaffe would not have expected to be the Daily Bruin editor-in-chief, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, a journalism teacher with the Peace Corps and, most recently, the author of the writing and speech book "In the "˜I' of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing and Speaking (Almost) like a Professional." Read more...

Westwood is a perpetual disappointment when it comes to the culinary state of our little village. Read more...

A couple weeks ago while walking down Westwood Boulevard to avoid studying for finals, it was pretty hard to miss the huge, bright yellow "Store Closing!" sign in the window of Hollywood Video. Read more...