With his best-selling book, “Dude, Where’s My Country?” and subsequent speaking tour around the globe, Michael Moore was definitely one of 2003’s movers and shakers. But being critical of an administration that seems unbeatable this November feels hopelessly out of date. Read more...

Spewing vitriol in the general direction of media behemoth Clear Channel has been a popular sport among hipsters for a while now, and for good reason. Read more...

For some time now, Los Angeles sports fans have bemoaned the absence of a professional football team. Great lengths have been taken to investigate the possibility of bringing a team back to this city. Read more...

UCLA Live’s International Theatre Festival has already brought us the likes of the acclaimed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre this season. Now, the festival gets set to shift into high gear again when Berlin’s celebrated avant-garde theater group, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz (or Volksbühne, for short), helmed by famed renegade director Frank Castorf, takes the stage for a three-day stint at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, running Dec. Read more...

There might not be any us v. them mentality brewing between theater students and professors and their film counterparts, but inhabitants of Macgowan Hall (home of the theater department) and Melnitz Hall (home of film and television) aren’t exactly sending each other holiday greeting cards either. Read more...

Vans Off The Wall Tour Henry Fonda Theater Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. Death By Stereo, The Suicide Machines, T.S.O.L., Avenged Sevenfold, The Unseen, and Western Waste perform for those of you who have been able to uphold the punk rock high school dream or at least who can still listen to it. Read more...

For anyone who has ever suffered through “Miracle on 34th Street” or turned off the radio in disgust during the 88th song about bundling up in the snow (especially when it’s 75 degrees outside), Sandra Tsing Loh’s “Sugar Plum Fairy” offers an interesting, funny new taste of the holiday season. Read more...