By Robert Esposito Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected] Sweatshops are the bane of impoverished countries around the world, and despite loud opposition and a horrible rap, companies continue to exploit workers from “abroad” (a sweatshop euphemism). Read more...

Neil Young “Are You Passionate?”Â  Reprise Records Passionate? Yes, that this album should remain on the shelves and far away from your CD player. “She’s a Healer,” from Neil Young’s “Are You Passionate?,” starts out with the lyrics, “There ain’t no way I’m gonna let the good times go.” But sadly, they have gone. Read more...

The underappreciated “A Bronx Tale,” released in 1993, was Robert De Niro’s directorial debut. The story focused on an Italian youth, Calogero “C” Anello, played by Lillo Brancato, growing up in Little Italy in the late ’60s. Read more...

Kenny Chang What happens? You decide! Let the survey begin! E-mail Kenny at [email protected], and he will sum up the fight in next week’s column. Choose your own adventure! Read more...

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...