If there has to be a root of all evil, it might as well be money. A decrease in UCLA Live’s state funding this year was naturally followed by an increase in student ticket prices. Read more...

The idea now sounds almost too typical. During the summer after his first year of college at UCLA, Don Coscarelli decided to make a movie. Since then, the results have been anything but ordinary. Read more...

For the past two years, UCLA Live has been tirelessly praised as eclectic, genre-bending, unconventional, eclectic, avant-garde and eclectic. With another fruitful season set in motion, nobody seems to care that UCLA Live has the Los Angeles arts community spoiled rotten. Read more...

Welcome to the wonderful world of arts and entertainment at UCLA. And when I say wonderful, you can be sure I’m not traipsing carelessly into the sinister realm of hyperbole. Read more...

Scott Dudelson learned some valuable lessons while organizing this past year’s Acoustic Live battle of the bands. Although this past fall’s inaugural battle drew sizable crowds for normally calm Sunday nights, Dudelson has continued to make improvements on the event. Read more...

Sandwiched between the center of an inescapable industry that tells us that image is everything, and an academic universe that prefers having original thoughts to dressing to impress, it should come as no surprise that UCLA students are a little lost in the wilderness when it comes to fashion. Read more...

Jon Robertson, chair of the music department for 10 years, is having a serious case of déjà vu. The departmental cuts he has had to make as a result of California’s ailing economy have been all-too-familiar. Read more...