After picking up my visiting friend from the airport two weeks ago, I was disgusted at the first thing that came out of her mouth. Not “How have you been?” or “What’s been happening at school?” but rather, she asked me “What celebrities do you think we’ll run into at UCLA this week?” I didn’t even feel like answering her question, one that I’m sure many others have also heard when showing out-of-town friends around campus. Read more...

For all the rug-cutters and hepcats out there, loosen up your pipes, grab your kicks and glad rags, and then spark a fire-stick, because the Golden Age is back and the jive is blip. Read more...

The DJs on UCLA Radio’s Night School program know the feeling of being outsiders. In their attempt to promote the station by organizing an on-campus show, the DJs were fenced out by bureaucratic red tape. Read more...

Meet Gabrielle Union: actress, model and, yes, former UCLA Store Book Buyback supervisor. “I topped the scales at $6.16 an hour, and that was after three raises,” Union said. Read more...

Tired of watching UCLA lose without a prayer? Then tune in and cheer on fourth-year biomedical and French student Carrie Brubaker as she goes for the gusto against a student from USC tonight on Hollywood Squares. Read more...

More than a year before September 11, 2001, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 1877, tried to organize the LAX security workforce to get more training. Read more...

Instead of “The OK” or “The Go,” Damian Kulash and his bandmates chose OK Go. The not-so-hipster name exudes an air of excitement and anticipation for the start of something new, or at least welcome relief from the currently accepted standards for artistic merit. Read more...