Blevin Blectum describes her music as “stuff that I want to hear that I haven’t heard before.” Anyone encountering her music for the first time can rest assured of one thing: her sparse, dark though strangely warm compositions are unlike most things anyone has heard before. Read more...

Robert Rosen, dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, doesn’t just sit, aloof, in his office doing administrative work. Last year, he helped create the student-run television program “UCLA: Next,” a magazine style television series focusing on UCLA. Read more...

Is the school out of toilet paper again? If so, it’s not because of the depleted supply of South American trees, but because the government is probably spending too much money on the military and not enough on schools and necessities. Read more...

The current state of the music industry is nothing to sing about. For the second year in a row, U.S. album sales have declined, plummeting 8.7 percent to nearly 650 million units in 2002 ““ the worst drop in over a decade. Read more...

“Gangs of New York” Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel-Day Lewis Directed by Martin Scorsese 3 Stars “Gangs of New York” is a three-hour collection of meticulous, aggressive attention to historical detail. Read more...

On Saturday, Drake Stadium played host to one of the most unusual soccer matches UCLA has seen in years: Czech and Slovak locals versus celebrities from the Czech Republic. Read more...

A new quarter is starting, and for those of us hailing from the “hella” north half of the state, that can only mean one thing: a seven hour car trip. Read more...