The audience’s laughter at a performance of “The Cherry Orchard” on Feb. 10 was utterly fascinating. Anton Chekhov’s seminal play, showing until March 19th at the Mark Taper Forum, follows the plight of an aristocratic family struggling to avoid the sale of its estate. Read more...

As a senior at midterms time winter quarter, I’m really ready to graduate and join the real world. And until recently, the only thing holding me back from truly wanting to be done with school was the vision I had of my post-college self as one of the jobless and homeless people occupying a bench on Le Conte Avenue. Read more...

For many students at UCLA, the words “South Campus” evoke images of sleep-deprived students laboring over calculus and chemistry, enduring rigorous schedules in order to become future doctors, engineers and mathematicians. Read more...

I wrote a column a while back where I laid out my case for not liking The Beatles. This column took a lot of thought, as I attempted to pinpoint exactly why I couldn’t enjoy the most influential rock band of all time. Read more...

Matchbook Romance “Voices” Epitaph Records Matchbook Romance realized what many emotion-ridden bands of today have yet to discover ““ screaming instead of singing won’t grant you immortality in the music world. Read more...

Very few people have the ability to make a comeback after being gone for over a quarter century. However, if there was anyone up to the challenge, it would be Alice Coltrane. Read more...

Arctic Monkeys “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” Domino Records The Arctic Monkeys must be doing something right. The pop-rock quartet nearly beat out Oasis as the fastest-selling U.K. Read more...