Tuesday, April 28

Not just another high school musical

Think back to what life was like in high school. Whether you were the class valedictorian, the class clown, the quarterback, the band kid, the popular kid or the book worm, UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television will allow you to revisit the halls of high school in the fall production "Is There Life After High School?" Read more...

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The cast of “Is There Life After High School?” rehearses Monday night in the Little Theater in Macgowan Hall.


Coastal sound

The members of Best Coast aren't a very wild bunch. Read more...

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Bethany Cosentino, front woman of the surf rock band Best Coast, will perform in Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Thursday along with Young the Giants and Dominant Legs. (WINDISH AGENCY)


Round 1 of Laugh Bowl II kicks off

Knocks can announce any of a number of things: people clamoring to be let in, jokes or even Mr. Opportunity making his presence known. Read more...

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Second-year theater student Adam Epelbaum was a finalist in the first-annual Laugh Bowl competition against USC. Laugh Bowl II begins Friday.


Fashion or whatever: _Child stars flaunt too much style too soon_

I knew Willow Smith was going to have some sort of influence on fashion when she debuted her whiplash-friendly, heart-shaped mohawk in her music video. Read more...

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Taylor Momsen of “Gossip Girl” fame models the Material Girl line for Macy’s. Momsen’s edgy personal style includes heavy black eye shadow and stripper heels. (MACY’S INCORPORATED)


Alumni thespians put on “Island of Brilliance”

Jill Renner walked hurriedly to a black storefront on Venice Boulevard and, pulling back a large, wooden, ramshackle door, stepped into a small theater space. Read more...

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The cast of Pacific Resident Theatre’s “Island of Brilliance” features current UCLA students and alumni, working with longtime professional actors.


History waltzes into Powell Library for annual dance

NEWS BRIEF: Historical waltz attendees dance through time with rhythm

Though popular dance styles focus on individual, unorganized movement, attendees of a historical waltz event twirled together under the Powell Library rotunda on Saturday. [0:41]

"NEWS BRIEF: Historical waltz attendees dance through time with rhythm"

Imagine a room filled with young ladies decked in Victorian garb and young men in tailcoats and top hats to match, effervescently dancing a waltz across the room. This isn't just a scene out of a Jane Austen novel. Read more...

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Monica Kracy, a fifth-year aerospace engineering student, is the president of the Historical Ballroom Dance Club.