When fourth-year Erin Beck began the undergraduate film and television major at UCLA two years ago, she was one of the few starting her studies of film, television and digital media from scratch. Read more...

It's not often that small-screen material gets the big-screen treatment. Read more...

Time to sell back your textbooks and head down to the record store (or the iTunes store, if that's more your style) to pick up a nice stack of albums to last you through the summer. With new music pretty much on vacation until July 11, when Interpol, Justice and Spoon drop LPs like bombs in Afghanistan, it's also the perfect time to look back on the best albums of the year thus far. Read more...

"It was love at first puke." Or so says Danny (Weiko Lin) in a sentimental reference to his romantic first encounter with Julia (Lisa Faiman) when intoxicated at a party. Read more...

Their official name is Design | Media Arts. But "Desma," the affectionate abbreviation tossed around for the department in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, seems much more fitting when one observes its students' casually creative, communal vibe. Read more...

Check out the photo gallery by clicking the link on the left. Read more...

When renowned Russian bodybuilder Alexander Nevsky came to UCLA in 1998, he was 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighed over 300 pounds. And he had big dreams to match his 21-inch biceps. Read more...