Why stare at your iBook until your eyes are crossed as you illegally download the new Strokes album, when you can be pillaging and plundering while drunk with a dagger between your teeth? Read more...

I made a mistake, but I’m only half-willing to take the blame. As far as I’m concerned, the other half goes to UCLA’s on-campus cable television setup. Read more...

We’ve got nothing against “The Lord of the Rings,” but let’s face it: It’s over. Literally. It’s done. Let’s all accept it and move on. Sure, it was great while it lasted, but the first step toward acceptance is breaking out of denial. Read more...

The idealistic bubble of Iranian filmmaking has burst. A crop of movies that comprises the 14th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema at the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s festival flaunts the unique ability of seven Iranian filmmakers. Read more...

Maybe it’s time you actually meet the 268 friends on your “Friends” list. No, not through your nifty Web cam. Try some good old-fashioned face-to-face contact. 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...

“Please do not clean this room!!! Or throw anything away. Thank you.” Scrawled on a small scrap of paper and taped onto a wall of his exhibition room, 31-year-old Edgar Arceneaux’s note to the Hammer Museum’s cleaning crew shows that he is cautious about how others perceive his space, which will serve as his exhibit and personal studio until the end of February. Read more...