UCLA assistant professor of dance and choreography, Cheng-Chieh Yu, remembers one of her first encounters with rice as a child. Her mother told her that if she did not finish each grain of rice in her bowl, the wasted grains would come back as blemishes on her future husband’s face. Read more...

Maybe opposites really do attract. From Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, to Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the entertainment industry has shown that the pairing of two seemingly contradicting characters seems to be the formula for box-office success, at least in the non-buddy, buddy-action film genre, if there is such a thing. Read more...

Hal Willner, UCLA Live’s 2003-2004 Artist in Residence, treats the multi-artist compilation a lot more seriously than most others. After all, while many of the generic multi-artist discs you see scattered in bargain bins are little more than shameless cash-in attempts, for Willner, the medium is an attempt to explore the unexplored. Read more...

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...

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...

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...