By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Staff Beginning today, the UCLA Conference on Mexican Literature and Culture for the Millennium aims to explore the diverse art and heritage of Mexico and the border United States. Read more...

By Angela Salazar Daily Bruin Senior Staff Thumb-sucking children have more to fear than getting an overbite. In the morbid style of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey, “Shockheaded Peter” tells tales of strangely entertaining ways to punish disobedient children. Read more...

David Gray “White Ladder” ATO Records The windows are open and the rumbling trucks roll past the small house in London where David Gray is recording his fourth, self-financed album. Read more...

By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Staff It’s five o’clock and time to kick back, go to the local pub, meet some friends, network with new business contacts and drink juice. Read more...

L.A. Guitar Quartet will perform at Royce Hall The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, an instrumental ensemble whose recent self-titled release debuted in the top 15 of the Billboard Classical-Crossover charts and remained there for six months, will perform at 8 p.m. Read more...

By Aphrodite Manousos Daily Bruin Contributor Anti-pop Consortium, Sonic Sum and Mike Ladd all came out Tuesday night to the El Rey for a celebration of indie hip hop and in protest of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s conviction and placement on death row. Read more...

This week, I had the unique opportunity of watching a rather brilliant new documentary from some up-and-coming young filmmakers. Entitled “Hill’s Haunted Hill House on Haunted Hill,” the film just happened to be about my apartment building. Read more...