Few people would deny music can be a spiritual experience, and for Roberto Miranda jazz is the best way to see the light. Miranda, an adjunct assistant professor in jazz studies in the ethnomusicology department at UCLA, is a jazz musician who has played bass with everyone from world-class jazz musicians to members of the local hip-hop scene Jurassic 5. Read more...

Though art generally remains still, right now at UCLA it is in the process of moving. Two departments of the School of Arts and Architecture has packed its bags and is making a new home in the newly-built Kinross building located in Westwood’s Lot 32. Read more...

Take a look at a survey listing the top college student activities on any given Saturday night, and going out to see a theatrical production would probably be found lurking near the bottom. Read more...

There’s a dancer hiding in all of us just kicking to get out. You saché in your bathrobe in front of your mirror when you think no one’s watching. Read more...

It’s commonly understood that some of the biggest music releases of the year don’t see light until just before the holiday season. This year is no different. Read more...

Piles of CDs, books and magazines are scattered throughout Performing Arts director David Sefton’s spacious Royce Hall office. While he spends a third of his time traveling in search of new performers to book, his search doesn’t end when he reaches home. Read more...

If ignorance is bliss, then Bob Crane, subject of Paul Schrader’s film “Auto Focus,” was probably the gosh-darn happiest man in the universe. As the star of the television hit “Hogan’s Heroes” during its brief but popular run, Crane was privy to all the women fame brings, and he documented his sexcapades through still photography and then-new video technology. He shared his escapades with John Carpenter ““ a man who would become the focus of an investigation into Crane’s eventual murder in a hotel in Scottsdale, Ariz. Read more...