Back in the 1990s, members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology blackjack team jetted off to Las Vegas and hustled casinos out of millions of dollars using borderline illegal card-counting techniques. Read more...

Hi. My name is Sommer. And I have a gambling problem. At least, I think I might. But it’s just so hard to be sure these days. Read more...

There’s no greater exhilaration in No-Limit Texas Hold ’em than hearing a poker player declare, “All in.” Even when the fateful words are uttered by a dirt-poor college student in sweatpants, playing in a game where “no limit” hardly amounts to a triple-digit pot, “all in” is still “all in.” From red, white and blue poker chips to Hold ’em lingo like flop, turn, river and kicker, the sights and sounds of the increasingly popular poker game are becoming ubiquitous throughout the dorms and apartments around campus. Read more...

There seems to be no limit to the rise of poker madness, and UCLA is cashing in on the craze Read more...

Living in Los Angeles, UCLA students have come to accept certain stereotypes associated with the city: sun, gangs, traffic and Hollywood. The UCLA Film and Television Archive is trying to smash those stereotypes with their new film series “Los Angeles: Sight Unseen.” “Sight Unseen” is an attempt by the Archive to present films that appeal to L.A. Read more...

What makes “Urinetown,” and especially the touring production that opened a two-week run at the Wilshire Theatre on Tuesday night, work so well as a musical comedy is not that it manages to make good use of its preposterous main conceit in spite of itself. Read more...

Despite getting horrible across-the-board reviews, “Van Helsing” is a success. Sure, only 24 percent of national critics gave it a favorable review, according to RottenTomatoes.com, but for most of the people who actually make the decisions in the film industry, the more important number is the $54 million it made at the box office. Read more...