Hi Jake, I consult bruinwalk.com professor reviews every enrollment period, but it has occurred to me that having a similarly formatted “˜TA Review’ forum would be immeasurably more helpful, since they do most of the grading in lower-division classes. Read more...

Film & TV: “˜Touch of pink’ It’s east-meets-west hilarity when an Ismaili Canadian guy named Alim (Jimi Mistry) gets a surprise visit from his traditionalist mother attempting to set him up with a proper Muslim girlfriend. Read more...

The arts have always been used to express opinion, and with such a heated political climate surrounding citizens this fall, there’s no better time for the art department to embrace and cultivate students’ abilities to use art to communicate political views. Read more...

Walking through Shanghai, actor Nonso Anozie couldn’t help but stick out in the crowd. The 6-foot-6 London native of Nigerian parentage attracted a massive group of Chinese spectators wherever he went on a recent trip to China for British theater group Cheek By Jowl’s production of “Othello,” in which he plays the leading role. Read more...

“Stage Beauty” Directed by Richard Eyre Lions Gate Films Based merely on first impressions, Richard Eyre’s “Stage Beauty” is most comparable to “Shakespeare in Love.” Both period films boast a Shakespeare play, a spectacular array of costumes and settings and a cross-dressing backstage romance. Read more...

If Paul Krugman was a boxer, it’s safe to say he would have thrown enough punches at President Bush to knock him out. But so far Krugman has kept his boxing gloves at home, letting words and numbers do the talking. Read more...

UCLA can be a big place, whether you’re a first-year freshman or a super senior. And Los Angeles is even larger. So I’m sure there are lots of questions you must have about the school we call our home and the giant post-modern mess of a city that surrounds it. Read more...