Saturday, September 12


Halloween really can scream fun for all ages

Sometime around the age of 13, when a combination of societal expectation and hormonal fluctuation so decrees, trick-or-treating on Halloween ends. Disapproving neighbors accuse you of being “too old” to beg for candy. 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...


Selling stars

By Jake Tracer dB MAGAZINE SENIOR STAFF [email protected] At 6613 1/2 Hollywood Blvd., among the sex and novelty shops, east of the wax museum and tourist traps, there exists, well, a boarded up building with a big “For Lease” sign posted on it. Read more...


Calendar

FILM&TV: “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” Ackerman Grand Ballroom Oct. 23-24, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The family hit of the summer wasn’t only a hit with families. Read more...


Quartet plays with flawless style

Sounding so good never looked so easy. Sunday night at Schoenberg Hall, the Takács Quartet performed the second in an ambitious series of six concerts dedicated to completing the Beethoven string quartet cycle. Read more...