Professor Ian Krouse’s “50th Birthday Celebration” is not a party in the ordinary sense of the word. There probably won’t be cake, it costs $7 for UCLA students to attend, and Feb. Read more...

Art may imitate life, but tomorrow night, life will imitate art. While the Fowler Out Loud series has featured many dance groups in the past, tomorrow night’s “Art Euphoria” dance performance is different: Its pieces were primarily inspired by art on display at the UCLA Fowler Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read more...

As I watched the Red Hot Chili Peppers spray Ryan Seacrest with Silly String during the red carpet preshow, I couldn’t help but have hope for this year’s Grammy Awards. Read more...

"Jules" Promenade Playhouse Jan. 27 through March 4 It’s a simple conversion, really. Replace Verona with Kansas City, Mo., the “art thous” and “thees” with obscenities, toss in some contemporary ideological tension and voila! Read more...

Most students get penalized when they miss class. Aleks Pevec, on the other hand, got a highly sought-after role in the musical “Wicked.” Pevec, a fourth-year theater student with the UCLA Ray Bolger Musical Theater program, explained that he had nothing to do after a class of his was cancelled, so he opted to audition for “Wicked” in Los Angeles. Read more...

Kiefer Sutherland. Tom Hanks. Hilary Duff. What do these celebrities have it common? My friends met them instead of me. I seem to have a real knack for missing celebrity sightings. Read more...

Sondre Lerche “Phantom Punch” ASTRALWERKS RECORDS Inspired after touring with Elvis Costello, Sondre Lerche abandoned the billowy pleasantry of his first albums, “Faces Down” and “Two Way Monologue,” and the jam-session arrangements of his jazz-influenced last album “Duper Sessions” in favor of the spirit of early Costello. Read more...