Monday, June 29

Clap meets thundering success

This Friday, prepare to do more than just applaud at the Campus Events Commission’s concert. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, who will be playing in Bruin Plaza on Oct. Read more...


Positive poetry

A group of young hip-hop musicians who call themselves the Renegade Soldiers met last Saturday afternoon in a well-furnished apartment on Selby Avenue off of Little Santa Monica Boulevard. Read more...


Deconstructing Prouvé

A walk down to the UCLA Hammer Museum will reveal an unusual transformation of its courtyard. The site has been turned into a construction site for a house, a tropical home designed more than 50 years ago in Europe that has stood proudly on two subsequent continents. Read more...


A sweeping change in women’s empowerment

At a recent family dinner, I was lamenting the challenge of writing a weekly entertainment column. “How about something on “˜Desperate Housewives’?” my mother suggested. “Maybe about how women love the show because it portrays females in control over the men in their lives,” she added, as my dad continued quietly eating his mashed potatoes. Read more...



Conspiracy theory

For documentary filmmaker Marc Levin, ignorance isn’t quite bliss. It’s inspiration. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Levin stepped into a cab in New York City where, to his surprise, the driver revealed his steadfast belief that the Jews were in part, or even entirely, responsible for the attacks that September. Read more...