Behind that calm, not too cool persona, Ice Cube is a hardworking business man. The one-time NWA lead rapper has become an enterprising multi-media star who attracts audiences, actors, and, most of all, investors. Read more...

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...

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...

UCLA students are merging theater and film, word and image to bring fresh stories to the dark heart of Los Angeles. Beginning tonight and running through Dec. Read more...