Like pigeons to Bert’s (of Bert and Ernie on “Sesame Street”) shiny bottle caps on “Sesame Street,” the audience at the Wiltern Theatre Wednesday night came for pretty things. Read more...

In Elizabethan times, Shakespeare’s plays, with their puns and other linguistic manipulations, appealed to the ear. Today, Shakespeare’s language challenges the modern ear and often inhibits understanding of his plays. Read more...

There’s a lot more to Chinese cinema than kung fu and crouching tigers. The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents a two-week series, beginning Saturday at 7:30 p.m., of “New Chinese Cinema,” offering a selection of films from mainland China’s so-called Sixth Generation of filmmakers at the James Bridge Theater. Read more...

Film “¢bull; “The Good Girl” is screening at Ackerman Grand Ballroom for $2 tonight and Friday night at 7 and 9:30 p.m. “¢bull; “Barry Lyndon” screens as part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive film series, “The Art of Hollywood.” The Stanley Kubrick film begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. Read more...

As part of the biannual monthlong experimental media arts festival in Los Angeles this month, “TV or NOT TV” finally reaches Westwood, bringing the strange and the bizarre to the UCLA Hammer Museum and the EDA space in Suite 104 of the Kinross Building this weekend. Read more...

The 549th sign of the apocalypse of good mainstream music: no embarrassing (five years later) fashion trend. This is pathetic. While we may spend our time forgetting these sometimes regrettable fashion statements, there’s no denying that at one moment in history, guys who were wearing tight pants with flared legs represented the heart of a musical revolution. Read more...

Ah, the ’80s. When else could a straight man wear nothing but a pink cowboy hat, matching boots and a strategically-placed toilet plunger? The real life story of the scantily clad 1980s rocker Buck Naked of the band Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys will be brought to the UCLA stage tonight in a staged reading of first-year UCLA master of fine arts student Tony Moton’s original screenplay, “Buck Naked.” The performance will be put on by Theater Underground, a registered student organization sponsored by the theater department to support and produce student theater on campus. Read more...