For many, music can be the ultimate therapist. But not many bands go beyond the headphones and offer self-help on the Internet to random strangers with problems ranging from unfaithful spouses to disrespectful uncles. Read more...

Letters of rejection are never easy to take. In 1995, however, three independent filmmakers never received their Sundance rejection letters. Unsure about their status in the prestigious film festival, they booked hotels in Park City, Utah, and when they were finally notified of their rejection, they decided to create their own film festival and to “slam” Sundance. Read more...

At UCLA, an endless deluge of class work is the least of our problems. We have to earn money, scour Westwood for parking, pay bills, take out the trash, and ““ horror! Read more...

Fluid beating drums, a man on stilts, a remote Ghanaian village and a testosterone-induced rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” With three media, two different dancing styles and a melding of expressions, a night of performance can become a strongly humorous journey of reflection. Read more...

Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, Michael Graves, … UCLA? In the past, winning Architecture Magazine’s prestigious Progressive Architecture Award has often been associated with outstanding achievement on an individual artistic level. Read more...

On any given day, some UCLA students will gripe about the endless amounts of reading and papers assigned to them by their professors. But then again, most of these assignments do not include a mandatory viewing of the Grammy Awards or selecting two articles to read from Billboard magazine on a weekly basis. Read more...

There’s a stretch of time near the start of every year, beginning on MLK Day and running through the Black History Month of February, when the country collectively makes an attempt to not only acknowledge the contributions of blacks to society, but also to open some kind of dialogue assessing just how far race relations have come in the past half-century. Read more...