Wednesday, July 1


SOUNDBITE: "Blue"

Diana Ross “Blue” MOTOWN RECORDS Most mothers soothe their newborns to sleep with nursery rhymes or seemingly innate lullaby standards. In 1971, just months after leaving The Supremes, Diana Ross lulled her month-old Rhonda to dreamland by singing light-hearted versions of songs about domestic violence, depression and betrayal popularized by Billie Holiday. Read more...


Screen Scene: “The Break-Up”

“The Break-Up” Directed by Peyton ReedUniversal pictures*** Like people do after a real breakup, “The Break-Up” focuses on all the bad times. The film explores what happens after most romantic movies end with a kiss. Read more...



Free Falling

Chad Stevens adjusts the harness connecting him to his inexperienced student and conducts yet another examination of the equipment that will save two lives in the next few minutes. Read more...


A lot to learn

It’s a hot day in what looks like downtown New York, except big cameras line the streets instead of cars, people are talking into headsets and walkie-talkies instead of cell phones, and instead of flying across the country, UCLA students only had to drive down Melrose Avenue to the Paramount lot. Read more...


UCLA has a secret

In November of 2004, Frank Warren, a small business owner in Germantown, Md., printed up 3,000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to strangers. These, he told them, were to share a secret, which had to be something true and something they had never shared with anybody else before. Read more...