Adding to the political fervor surrounding the UCLA campus lately, Latin rock band Maná urged students to get involved in areas other than state politics, pushing for environmental reform at their Thursday night performance in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...

Architecture’s iron frames and painting’s whimsical brush strokes may not seem to mix, but for Kamran Khavarani, an architect and painter, the two blend more easily than paint on his palette. Read more...

For many students, college is a time of self-discovery and decision-making. Some become compulsive in changing their major, floundering in the uncertainties of the real world, while others enter as freshmen with a resolve and direction that follows them throughout their lives. Read more...

Call me crazy, but it may not be a coincidence that fall is home to both the beginning of the new school year and the beginning of the new TV season. Read more...

Two different generations of music will take the stage this Sunday night at Royce Hall when multi-Grammy-award winner and saxophonist Michael Brecker will be sharing the bill with trumpet/flugelhorn player Roy Hargrove. Read more...

Never underestimate the power of incentive. When Manoochehr Sadeghi was in the first grade, his father promised to buy him a santur, the Persian hammered dulcimer, on the condition he excelled in his schoolwork. Read more...

Aside from spending their formative years forming, childhood chums Tim Garrick and Lori Scarlett devoured gothic horror romance novels by the late V.C. Andrews and acted out the stories using puppet heads. Read more...