Conductor Gerald Wilson flung his arms in the air on Sept. 12 as his big band belted out the last refrain of his famous composition “Viva Tirado.” He held them there for bar after bar, while his curly white hair danced under the lights of Schoenberg Hall. Read more...

For UCLA students who expect college to rock their socks off, they’ve come to the right place. UCLA’s Campus Events commission has a whole year of free on-campus concerts lined up to perform on every corner of campus. Read more...

As students begin a new school year, one of the most followed and discussed issues in the weeks to come will undoubtedly be the upcoming presidential election. Read more...

In one of the epic moments in “Spider-Man 2,” Doctor Octopus reaches skyward and proclaims, “The power of the sun… in the palm of my hand!” The Apple iPod may not be able to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction, but it is equally miraculous nonetheless. Read more...

Despite significant progress, the state of Korean Americans in cinema has a long way to go. On Oct. 1, the Los Angeles Korean International Film Festival continues at USC’s Lucas Hall. Read more...

To discover the next frontier in digital filmmaking, one needn’t venture far ““ just take a look at your cellular phone. While plastic dinosaurs, yodeling custard, and garage bands may not seem like standard entertainment fare, Juliette Deinum, a UCLA alumna and cofounder of the “World’s Smallest Film Festival,” expects this new medium to explode in the United States as it has already in Asia and Europe. Read more...

There’s an old journalism joke that “news is what happens to editors.” The idea is that small stories happen so frequently that the ones that end up on the pages of a newspaper are only there because they happened in the presence of someone with some control over the content of those news pages. Read more...