CHRIS BACKLEY/ Daily Bruin Staff Second-year piano performance student Dan Yu practices Chopin’s "Study No. 11" in Schoenberg Hall. By Howard Ho Daily Bruin reporter [email protected] A joke has Arnold Swarzenegger as a child playing the game “classical composers” with two buddies in Austria. Read more...

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE “He Hunts” Geffen Playhouse (310) 208-5454 Through May 19 Bring Kleenex. Audience members are sure to laugh until they cry while watching Georges Feydeau’s play “He Hunts.” Translated by Philip Littell, the French farce is one of clever and quick-witted comedy. Read more...

By Christine Lee Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] The age old saying that good things come to those who wait was certainly true for the thousands of people waiting to get into Sunday’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Read more...

The uplifting sounds of Sigur Ros’ “Agaetis Byrjun” overpower the listener with sweeping orchestration and haunting melodies. Written in a combination of hopeful sounding syllables and Icelandic, the group’s native language, the songs’ meanings can be found in sonic textures rather than the literal messages of the lyrics. Read more...

Photos by MICHAEL MANTEL By Ken Ruda Daily Bruin Contributor As many may have noticed, UCLA was invaded over the weekend. Thousands of people squeezed themselves onto campus Saturday and Sunday for the annual reading extravaganza called the L.A. Read more...

Knitting Factory The Beat Fest comes to Los Angeles this week. By Kathleen Dunphy Daily Bruin Contributor  Apparently the Beat really does gone on. And lately it’s been traveling cross-country in a Pontiac Vibe. Read more...

By Mary Williams Daily Bruin Senior Staff Driving out to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio Saturday was like a pilgrimage to a secret, foreign land. Read more...