By Michelle V. Gonzales Daily Bruin Contributor If the swamps of Florida could talk, they may never have predicted a punk-rock kid from the state of old people and wild night life would head out to Los Angeles and become a hit among emo kids across the nation. Read more...

By Mary Williams Daily Bruin Senior Staff The creative team behind Gorillaz played a great set that no one could see Friday at the first of two shows at the Hollywood Palladium. Read more...

  EVE COHEN David Schweizer works with students in his theater class in Macgowan Hall. By Jinjue Pak Daily Bruin Contributor Director and UCLA professor David Schweizer may be another Clark Kent, busy playing dual roles on the set and in classrooms. Read more...

  Daily Bruin File Photo Anthony Kiedis shows up at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. By Mary Williams Daily Bruin Senior Staff Anthony Kiedis sits in the front of the classroom, looking at the faces of each of the 15 eager UCLA students who are about to interview him. Read more...

  DANIEL WONG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff The Gyuto monks, performing at Royce Hall tonight, create a mandala. By Mary Williams Daily Bruin Senior Staff Tibetan monks in a museum on busy Wilshire Boulevard might seem out of place, but somehow it was the native Angelenos who looked like they didn’t fit. Read more...

  EDWARD LIN/Daily Bruin Senior Staff With some newly-available technology, DVD movies like these can be copied and traded by anyone with an Internet connection. By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Reporter Two years ago, a 19-year-old Norwegian named Jon Johansen won a prestigious national award for high school students, The Karoline Prize, honoring extracurricular achievements. Read more...

By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Reporter The sky is falling at the Cirque du Soleil’s production of “Dralion.” The show, currently running next to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, features a mysterious eight-ton ring 50 feet above the stage that seems to randomly drop things, whether it be performers, long satin ropes, juggling balls, or even the words of the welcome announcement before the show: “Please turn off all cell phones and pagers.” As objects fall from above, performers come from below, from the sides, and even from behind the audience. Read more...