First the iPod took over campus. After that, the podcast was inevitable. “It’s the equivalent of TiVo for radio,” said Greg Katz, a fourth-year philosophy student and general manager for UCLA’s own campus station, UCLAradio.com. Read more...

Twenty-first-century society subscribes to a culture of shortcuts. So much information is thrown at individuals at any given time that people often feel they have no choice but to describe things they’re unsure of through generalizations and categorical dismissals. Read more...

Despite how beautiful and sophisticated film scores can be sometimes, there is only one orchestra in the world solely dedicated to performing them live, and it is based in UCLA. Read more...

Once the books are purchased, the rent is paid and the fridge is filled, most student filmmakers recognize that financing life is hard enough. But financing a movie ““ now that’s a challenge. Read more...

Jock Young “Epsilon Zeta” HARBOR HOUSE BOOKS The closing pages of “Epsilon Zeta,” a novel by Jock Young, bear a striking resemblance to its opening pages. Read more...

There’s one line in particular from Lupe Fiasco’s new album, “Food and Liquor,” that I really like: “I’d like to thank the streets that drove me crazy / and all the televisions out there that raised me.” It may not be poetry, but it’s clear that the rising MC has an above-average awareness of what’s going on in the world around him and the nerve to speak his mind. Read more...

Since when is the Internet as exclusive as the Playboy Mansion or the backstage of a Radiohead concert? Since now. The popular video-sharing site YouTube.com, which began as a completely public site, has recently decided to adopt the route of more exclusive Internet communities ““ namely, colleges. Read more...