Thursday, June 25

Zeitlin takes to the road, fine-tunes love for music

If the idea of a cozy office job after graduation has you waking up in a cold sweat, Jonathan Zeitlin can probably relate. Instead of settling for fluorescent lights and fax machines, Zeitlin will be heading out on the road for a year upon graduating this month. Read more...



Asian Americans break through silver screen

As the year comes to a close and students take a break from UCLA, Hollywood continues to evolve. For the first time in film history, Asian Americans are directing, producing, and staring in their own nationally distributed motion pictures telling the stories of young Asian Americans. Read more...


Screen scenes:

“The Hulk” Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly Directed by Ang Lee “The Hulk” is a comic book movie, not merely in its superhero subject matter, but also in its split-screen frenzy, which resembles the flipping of pages of animated drawings. Read more...




“˜Soap operetta’ mixes dramatic, musical styles

In their production for Theatrefest 2003, “Felicity is a Cynical Art,” eight UCLA students have confirmed Polonius’ sage advice to Laertes in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet:” “To thine own self be true.” The “soap operetta,” which opens Thursday night in Kerckhoff Grand Salon, is the first production of Giovanni Ortega and Ben Lamoso’s recently formed company, Mezclao, which translates as “mix” from Spanish. Read more...