Squashed between “Conversations with History” and “A Prologue to Chaucer,” an episode of “UCLA Next” aired nationwide last Tuesday on the UCTV station. “UCLA Next,” a half-hour documentary-style show, is produced by a television production class. Read more...

FILM&TV: “The Breaking Point” Based on Hemingway’s famous novel “To Have and Have Not”, Michael Curtiz’s drama about a debt-ridden boat captain sticks to the original text closer than Howard Hawks’ better-known version starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Read more...

It’s the first Friday afternoon of winter quarter, the first clear day in Southern California of 2005, and several theater students are buzzing around Macgowan Hall. 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...