She’s everywhere I look. On buses. At the Century City mall. On the sides of buildings. Everywhere she is, she’s doing the same thing ““ suggestively putting her index finger to her lips, shushing my inner libido as if to say, “Wait ’til it’s not primetime network-TV anymore, cowboy.” Yeah, it’s puppy love alright. Read more...

Like a building ripe for remodeling, the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design is under its own construction. The department is expanding and improving upon its scope with the inception of an undergraduate bachelor of arts program in architectural studies. Read more...

It’s official: H&M is coming to Southern California, one store at a time. H&M has fascinated me for the longest time. I ask myself, how do they do it again and again, making affordable clothes that are more desirable than most of the expensive ones I find myself wanting? Read more...

An early 20th-century mask from the Southwest Pacific; a Chinese hand puppet; a 19th-century Nigerian headdress; an ancient portrait vessel from Peru; a mask by the Tsimshian peoples of British Columbia. Read more...

With elaborate Chinese costumes and intricate hairstyles adorned with beads soaked in color and faces painted to perfection, the artists about to perform could easily be mistaken for life-size ceramic dolls. Read more...

“Jesus Camp” Director Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Magnolia Pictures For today’s documentaries, two characteristics just keep popping up: cuteness and catastrophe. In “March of the Penguins,” huggable birds speed-waddle from ravenous seals. Read more...

“American Hardcore” Director Paul Rachman Sony Pictures In the arena of documentary film, a filmmaker’s level of involvement with his or her source material can be both a blessing and a curse. Read more...