With an MBA from The UCLA Anderson School and a JD from the UCLA Law School, Kelly Perdew knows the meaning of hard work. But as only the winner of the second season of “The Apprentice” would know, going from Bruin Walk to Wall Street takes more than a little determination and good luck. 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...

Beneath the often indecipherably thick Southern accents and the overly dramatized competition between the two leading men, there lies a cast of triple threats who can act, sing, and dance their way into the collectively nodding heads and tapping feet of a very pleased audience. Read more...

Bright Eyes “I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning” Saddle Creek Records Until the release of “I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning,” the frequent references to Bright Eyes’ front man Conor Oberst as the new Bob Dylan in glossy rock magazines must have been due to his tendency to write sprawling, seemingly endless streams of lyric-driven verses and a voice that is untrained at best. Read more...

“Assault on Precinct 13″ Directed by Jean-François Richet Rogue Pictures It seemed the American public had enough prison scandals to deal with. “Assault on Precinct 13″ sets out to prove that there is room for one more. 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...

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...