JANA SUMMERS UCLA’s BookZone in Ackerman Union will stay open during the L.A. Times Festival of Books. It will also stock a booth in Royce Quad. Read more...

By Terry Tang Daily Bruin Senior Staff Anyone who has seen Margaret Cho perform stand-up knows that she doesn’t have much to hide. Her candid and humorous way of talking about everything from her oppressive stint on network television to her risky fall into drugs and alcohol has both horrified and amused audiences. Read more...

Author Catherine Mullholland will be signing her book “William Mullholland and the Rise of Los Angeles” Saturday from 3-4 p.m. at the Skylight Books Booth, No. Read more...

  Photos courtesy of Santa Monica Festival 2001 This year’s theme for the Santa Monica Festival 2001 is "A Celebration of Our Community Roots." By Darcy Lewis Daily Bruin Contributor A sense of community is sometimes lost in a city the size of Los Angeles, but it can be found in abundance at the Santa Monica Festival this Saturday. Read more...

  Ira Glass, host and producer of public radio’s “This American Life” will speak at Royce Hall on Friday. By Michelle Baran Daily Bruin Contributor There’s something about the media in the U.S., it seems, that just thrives on repetition. Read more...

By Chris Young Daily Bruin Staff Music and mathematics have been linked together before, usually in right-brain-left-brain pop culture. But world music group Axiom of Choice demonstrates an innovative synthesis of a mathematical idea with collective group improvisation. Read more...

  USA Films Matt Dillon and Liv Tyler star in Harald Zwart’s "One Night at McCool’s." “One Night at McCool’s” Starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman, Paul Reiser and Michael Douglas Directed by Harald Zwart Eve has once again wrongly tempted man, but this time she’s five-foot-ten, blue-eyed, pouty-lipped, and her brassiere is showing. Read more...