Audience members filing into the Ahmanson Theater for the April 26 performance of “The Black Rider” most likely had no idea what they were in for. Read more...

I went to Coachella last weekend expecting a music festival. But what I got was a cultural one ““ no “counter-“ involved. In many ways, Coachella is a celebration of our generation. Read more...

In Powell 228, the man responsible for the death of Captain Marvel sat among UCLA students, laughing. He is Mark Waid, comic author and now UCLA lecturer, at least for the hour, for English 88S, “Comic Books As Literature.” On Tuesday, Waid, a veteran of over 20 years in the comic book industry and one of its premier writers, had a lot to say about the industry, the medium and the act of writing itself. Read more...

With several reporters and a photographer on the scene, the Daily Bruin fulfills its yearly duty and offers to everyone who was (all 60,000) and wasn’t there the second part of the fourth annual Coachella diary. Read more...

It didn’t take long for Spring Sing to become just as much about bridging the gaps between groups on campus as it was about showcasing students’ talents. Read more...

Over a mere four years, The Fiery Furnaces have become the indie rock equivalent of the boy who cried wolf. Between their White Stripes-referencing debut “Gallowsbird’s Bark,” the hyperactive rock theatrics of “Blueberry Boat,” and “Rehearsing My Choir,” the only recent album to feature someone’s grandmother, the Furnaces have aimed for genius and fallen short. Read more...

I got a phone call the other day from a friend who had seen someone who looked like me on an old “7th Heaven” episode and asked if I had ever been on TV. Read more...