There are many ways to be entertained at UCLA ““ from exploring the campus, enjoying the events at Westwood Plaza or even sitting in your dorm room meeting new people. Read more...

Think back to the time when you entered the college application process and AP classes, varsity sports and involvement in millions of clubs just didn’t keep you busy enough, or so the college admissions officers believed. Read more...

In an ever-growing world of vacant properties and mundane restaurants, Westwood is in desperate need of more fun, cheap places to go like the Ultimate Improv theater. Read more...

UCLA Live may arguably be the West Coast’s premiere producer in world-class performing arts. Artists from home and abroad take turns introducing the audience to the beautiful, the avant-garde and the shocking. Read more...

When Elizabeth Upton started her job as musicology professor at UCLA, she was not prepared for the initiation process: creating a new general enrollment course. A medievalist, Upton created “Getting Medieval,” a course about modern incarnations of medieval things from Wagner’s operas to Disneyland castles and “The Lord of the Rings.” “I didn’t know anything about getting a new course approved. Read more...

A cappella singing is gaining a stronger voice at UCLA. In the last several years, a handful of new a cappella groups and music events have sprouted up on campus, offering more and more students a chance to create music using only their voice. Read more...

Walking through the dorms, a person would have to try hard not to notice the shared folder icons on students’ computer screens and the sound of music libraries playing pirated copies of the latest hit singles. Read more...