Thursday, June 25

Tour makes for eerie eve

Driven to the ground. That is how Frank Manis, tour guide on the Haunted Hollywood Ghost Walk Tour, described the demise of the Haunted Hearse tour that preceded his current business. Read more...


UCLA musicologists sing a different tune

Jacqueline Warwick is just one example of a pioneering musicologist from UCLA. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 after writing a dissertation on the connection between popular music in the 1960s and the female identity. Read more...


Landscape architecture students showcase new ideas

Recent landscape architecture graduate Claire Touze-Shawaf has visions of a children’s park near LAX without any metal monkey bars or slides. Her model involves a miniature Stonehenge that helps kids spot certain stars, and grass mazes just tall enough for small children to completely submerge. Read more...


Globe Theatre does Willie in drag

There has been an enormous buzz surrounding William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and its rendition of “Twelfth Night.” In anticipation of the production’s West Coast debut at Freud Playhouse Wednesday night, students and Bard enthusiasts at UCLA noted that Shakespeare remains the No. Read more...




Disney concert hall opens

Los Angeles may finally have a defining feature to represent the city with the opening of the long-awaited Walt Disney Concert Hall. The city, along with private organizations, has invested millions of public and private dollars into Bunker Hill on Grand Avenue with hopes that concert-goers will enjoy the community rather than hop back on the freeway after a show. Read more...