A Mother’s Journey: Photographs from Orissa, India, by Tara Colburn Fowler Museum Dec. 7 to Feb. 29 Colburn set out on a journey to India to find her son, who had joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, but came back with a wealth of amazing photographs from rarely viewed parts of rural India. Read more...

Vans Off The Wall Tour Henry Fonda Theater Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m. Death By Stereo, The Suicide Machines, T.S.O.L., Avenged Sevenfold, The Unseen, and Western Waste perform for those of you who have been able to uphold the punk rock high school dream or at least who can still listen to it. Read more...

There might not be any us v. them mentality brewing between theater students and professors and their film counterparts, but inhabitants of Macgowan Hall (home of the theater department) and Melnitz Hall (home of film and television) aren’t exactly sending each other holiday greeting cards either. Read more...

“Mona Lisa Smile” AMC AVCO Cinema Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. UCLA students have a chance to catch the female version of “Dead Poet’s Society” before it’s released with this special sneek preview. Read more...

For anyone who has ever suffered through “Miracle on 34th Street” or turned off the radio in disgust during the 88th song about bundling up in the snow (especially when it’s 75 degrees outside), Sandra Tsing Loh’s “Sugar Plum Fairy” offers an interesting, funny new taste of the holiday season. Read more...

You don’t have to know anything about home runs or Sammy Sosa to learn how to pitch a movie. Hosted by the UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program, professor Fred Rubin will be teaching a pitching seminar this Saturday, Dec. Read more...

In a scene from Tobias Wolff’s latest novel, “Old School,” a group of teenage boys are huddled around a fire in the lodge of their elite New England prep school while feisty writer Ayn Rand vehemently argues with the main character, a student consumed by literature, on the artistic merit of Ernest Hemingway. Read more...