When the pumpkin pie is gone and the post-meal coffee has been drunk, it’s an awkward point in any Thanksgiving meal. Eventually the question will come, assuming everyone at your table hasn’t fallen asleep from eating too much turkey: Now what? Read more...

In the time-honored tradition of busting windmills and head spins on sheets of cardboard spread over sidewalk pavement, the Hollywood Palladium will host this weekend’s Los Angeles Urban Dance Festival, showcasing brand spanking new styles by international and home-grown talent. Read more...

Jay-Z “The Black Album” Roc-A-Fella Say it ain’t so, Hov. If the hype is to be believed, “The Black Album” will be Jay-Z’s last ““ his final claim at hip-hop’s best-ever crown before he hangs up the mic and calls it quits. Read more...

In English professor Mona Simpson’s novel, “Anywhere But Here,” 12-year-old Ann is forced to awkwardly adjust to her new Los Angeles surroundings. Unlike her novel’s protagonist, Simpson has had no trouble making UCLA her home. Read more...

If there’s one potential misconception UCLA alumnus Jean Chung wants to shake off, it’s that “Forgotten Terror,” the art exhibit she helped organize, treads on old ground. Read more...

Of the 11 political documentaries being screened by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in the two-week series “This is Not Your TV,” one clear highlight is acclaimed filmmaker Errol Morris’ new work “Fog of War: Eleven Lessons of Robert S. Read more...

After “Divertimento No. 15,” a classical style ballet piece set to Mozart, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet dancers quite literally let their hair down. In Stravinsky’s “Variations for Orchestra,” Bonnie Pickard, a soloist, traded her immaculate bun for a loose ponytail; Ravel’s “Tzigane” saw the dancers do the same; and in Stravinsky’s “Apollo,” Lisa Reneau tossed her loose hair in blonde head circles. Read more...