“Culture Crossing” Kinross North Room 126 Thursday ““ Saturday, 8 p.m. Graduate and undergraduate World Arts and Cultures students rehash the whole multi-cultural thing in a student-produced performance that explores hybridity and understanding. Read more...

Can a neighborhood sell out? Opening today, “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” questions whether the benefits of revitalizing the ‘hood truly is worth the cost of  its soul and identity. Read more...

Many students and faculty skipped their usual Kerckhoff Coffeehouse run Wednesday, in favor of an afternoon of art and complimentary refreshments just next door. Samba music and mingling observers filled the usually empty Kerckhoff Art Gallery, as the Associated Students of UCLA’s Art in the Union program hosted a reception Wednesday afternoon to honor the winning entries in its annual Art in the Union program. Read more...

“Hidalgo” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Feb. 10, 8 p.m. If not for the pretty overt pro-American sentiment, this almost looks like a David Lean movie, Omar Sharif and all. Read more...

Play it again, Sam. Returning to the stage after a successful 2002 debut at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and currently playing at the Geffen Playhouse through Feb. Read more...

When Cary Long, owner of the sci-fi-themed Nova Express Cafe in Hollywood, moved from Berkeley to Los Angeles 14 years ago, he carried with him a passion for the Bay Area’s literati-independent coffeehouse culture and planted it between a barbershop and a pharmacy on Fairfax Avenue. Read more...

It’s difficult to find common ground in the writings of Alice Sebold and Glen David Gold. Her dark first-person narratives on unsettling topics differ from Gold’s fantastically colorful historical fiction. Read more...