Those who venture into Kerckhoff Coffee House on Tuesday nights will find the familiar study spot transformed into a venue for experimental music. Each Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. Read more...

Jacqueline Warwick is just one example of a pioneering musicologist from UCLA. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 after writing a dissertation on the connection between popular music in the 1960s and the female identity. Read more...

Recent landscape architecture graduate Claire Touze-Shawaf has visions of a children’s park near LAX without any metal monkey bars or slides. Her model involves a miniature Stonehenge that helps kids spot certain stars, and grass mazes just tall enough for small children to completely submerge. Read more...

As a tour guide led a group of UCLA architecture graduate students through the Walt Disney Concert Hall’s barren backstage area, a sense of anticipation swirled through everyone. Read more...

Los Angeles may finally have a defining feature to represent the city with the opening of the long-awaited Walt Disney Concert Hall. The city, along with private organizations, has invested millions of public and private dollars into Bunker Hill on Grand Avenue with hopes that concert-goers will enjoy the community rather than hop back on the freeway after a show. Read more...

FILM&TV: “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Oct. 23-24, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The family hit of the summer wasn’t only a hit with families. Read more...

Basement Jaxx “Kish Kash” Astralwerks This album isn’t quite the house music with which your older brother grooved along, which means it isn’t quite the house music this famed duo touted toward the end of last century. Read more...