Alfred Hitchcock’s spirit visited UCLA’s James Bridges Theater last Sunday night. At least it felt that way with legendary art director Henry Bumstead in attendance to speak about his work on “Vertigo,” one of four films in which he collaborated with the so-called Master of Suspense. Read more...

Idiosyncratic special guests Beck and two-thirds of the Flaming Lips were delightful treats among the smorgasbord of talented musical artists performing at KCRW’s A Sounds Eclectic Evening on Saturday at the Universal Amphitheater. Read more...

There was a time when Janell Escalera hated mariachi music. It’s hard to believe that the second-year ethnomusicology student and mariachi performer ever felt this way because Escalera now devotes her life to the art form. Read more...

The $20 tickets for the Egyptian Theater on Saturday night were worth it. These pricey tickets were for the sneak preview of Nicolas Cage’s latest project, “Adaptation,” the centerpiece of the American Cinematheque’s Real Wild Child tribute to the Oscar winning Cage last weekend. Read more...

Music has a way of blurring color lines and breaking cultural barriers, especially in the simmering melting pot of UCLA. Yiddishkayt L.A. and UCLA Hillel will apply this concept in a two-part event that explores Latino-Jewish relations and L.A. Read more...

Next to Knudsen Hall, Franz Hall and the Inverted Fountain, home to physics, astronomy and psychology, lies Schoenberg Hall, home of the music department. It seems that placing Schoenberg Hall on the cusp of North and South may have been the best case of going into foreign territory up until Nixon in China. Read more...

A new exhibit featuring a group of UCLA art students at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art not only examines the process of making art, it also gives viewers a chance to throw some art away. Read more...