Saturday, September 12

Performance ties music, message

While many bands brand themselves with political banners in light of current events, a lesser known band seeks to shed light on less publicized issues. In an effort to join this musical bandwagon of the day’s unresolved issues, The Apex Theory will perform today at UCLA’s Awareness 2005, an event hosted by the Armenian Students Association in conjunction with other student and non-student groups to educate the community about historical and current political and social issues ““ specifically acts of genocide. Read more...


Beat Fusion

The opportunity to see a hip-hop act as diverse as Boku doesn’t come around too often. Fortunately, the Fowler Out Loud series will be offering exactly that tonight at 6 p.m., when it presents a performance by Boku and Yoshi Beat Groundation in the Fowler Museum. Read more...


Southern drama bursts on stage

It’s Valentine’s night at Macgowan Hall. Sitting in the stands, amid scattered candy Sweethearts and red lollipops, a couple of third-year theater students sing love songs. Read more...


Big finish

While many UCLA students are in woe over the sixth week stresses of midterms and papers, others are dealing with the anxiety of putting on their own show. Read more...



Hollywood philosopher

For most UCLA students, finals week means pulling all-nighters in a last-minute attempt to learn 10 weeks’ worth of material. For actor and third-year philosophy student Colin Bain, however, finals week last quarter consisted of 14-hour days on the set of crime drama “Cold Case.” Bain’s eight-day shoot happened to fall on the same week as finals. Read more...


Center puts film history at students’ fingertips

For most students, Powell Library is seen as the gate to such works as Shakespeare and Chaucer, not Scorsese and Spielberg. But with the help of the Archive Research and Study Center, located on the second floor, watching classic films and spending time in the halls of Powell are becoming more integrated. Read more...