People purchasing electronics at the Best Buy in Westwood Village this weekend were met with a sign outside the store letting them know it would be closed for good in less than a month. Read more...
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The Best Buy on Weyburn Avenue will close next month, as part of a larger series of closures by the company across the country.
On Thursday night, the upstairs room of the Westwood Brewing Company was temporarily transformed into a barbershop for Brew-N-Shave, an event hosted by UCLA geography lecturer Justin Wilford to raise money for children's cancer research. Read more...
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UCLA lecturer Justin Wilford sits with his daughter Maesie at Westwood Brew Co. Thursday night as he has his head shaved in a fundraiser for children’s cancer research. Wilford hosted the event, inspired by his 5-year-old son Max, who is currently fighting brain cancer.
University police are investigating a report of a UCLA student who was robbed at gunpoint on Midvale Avenue Wednesday night. Read more...
The Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority recently announced its recommendation to place a subway station near UCLA. Read more...
A jackhammer tore at the concrete foundation where the house of UCLA's suspended Phi Kappa Psi chapter once stood, with the lot on Gayley Avenue covered by dust and a pile of salvaged lumber, during finals week of winter quarter. Read more...
Followed closely through the Hammer Museum by 11 high school students, Evan Moffitt was constantly in motion, at times making fists, raising his arms and kneeling down to grab his followers' attention. Read more...
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Evan Moffitt, a second-year philosophy student, is one of five undergraduate students who work for the Hammer Museum as student educators. He gives regular tours of the museum’s exhibitions and permanent collections to groups.
As the Westwood Farmers Market came to a close on Thursday, a produce vendor handed a man she had never met before a brown grocery bag full of bok choy and other vegetables, free of charge. Read more...
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Members of UCLA Food Not Bombs gathered in Santa Monica on Thursday and distributed home-cooked meals to the homeless population there. Earlier in the day, group members collected food items from the Westwood Farmers Market, grocery stores and local restaurants.
