So, what are you doing this year? I’m going to be spending my time here in the Daily Bruin office concentrating on asking that very question. Read more...

Housing some of the hugest pieces of architectural art you could imagine, Westwood is really one enormous museum. Except that in most museums on a Sunday morning you wouldn’t find beer cans on lawns, stiletto heels in gutters, or partygoers wearing mean hangovers (and very little else) trying to figure out exactly how they ended up sleeping with a family of squirrels in the bushes on Midvale Avenue. Read more...

Having spent almost thirty years of his life in the Kronos Quartet, David Harrington talks about the feelings and intentions of “Kronos” as if he is on a first-name basis with the musical entity he founded. Read more...

It’s said you can tell a lot about people by looking at them, but the truth is you might be able to learn even more by looking at the places they live. Read more...

The crowd hushes to an overwhelming silence. The performers warm up their vocal cords while the background music “¦ wait, there is no background music. While most artists use the accompaniment of instrumental music during performances, a capella groups base their performance solely on the human voice and the sounds it can make. Read more...

The man who revolutionized prime-time TV by bestowing Bart and Homer Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Groundskeeper Willie and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon upon the world is the same man who will handpick the cast of characters for Los Angeles’ second edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties, scheduled for June of 2003. Read more...

It’s easy to forget that on Le Conte Avenue, tucked between the Ralphs plaza and Burger King is a theatrical beacon and cultural center of Westwood. Read more...