DKNY, BCBG and FCUK: Get ready to meet your newest competitor in the world of fashion: FAST. Cue the lights. Polish the catwalk. It’s time to sashay and shantay with the newest creations from student designers at this year’s Fashion And Student Trends’ fashion show, “Addiction,” Monday, April 21 in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Read more...

With three quick snaps of her fingers and a sharp fling of her thick black hair, Alice Tong, 22, set the night into motion. Tong, an ethnomusicology graduate from UCLA and jazz singer fresh to the L.A. Read more...

Hey, remember “Footloose,” that classic ’80s flick in which city-boy Kevin Bacon moves to a small town where a local minister had banned rock ‘n’ roll and dancing? Read more...

They Might Be Giants has tried its hand at TV theme songs, children’s music and an homage to dead president James K. Polk. Maybe it was only a matter of time before the band gave literature a shot. Read more...

Armed with the heavy fuzz of reverb guitar and vocal harmonies reminiscent of early ’60s acts, The Raveonettes are forcing a new sound out of the roots of American rock ‘n’ roll. Read more...

UCLA Performing Arts Director David Sefton takes a while on the phone before he can talk. He wishes he were at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas at the moment, but he’s stuck in his office looking at his budget for the 2003-2004 season. Read more...

At the end of last quarter I made a bold pronouncement. “Rock is not dead,” I exclaimed. But feeling particularly bitter that day (it was 10th week after all), I made my courageous claim only by way of introducing what I felt to be five of the biggest problems in music today. Read more...