While most all-nighters this year will consist of endless hours spent cramming in Powell, illuminated by the glow of the computer screen, one exception is in order as the quarter begins. Read more...

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The Santa Monica Glow Festival 2010 will showcase interactive beach landscape art on Saturday from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. The exhibits around the pier will include art installations from UCLA alumni Joshua Howell and Aaron Zeligs, who will combine black lights, helium balloons and photoluminescence.(Photo courtesy of Bill Short)

In Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers' suspicions of Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger slowly dissipated as the filmmakers spent time with the soldiers. Read more...

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The film “Restrepo,” which later inspired Tim Hetherington’s book “Infidel,” is featured in the Getty’s film series, “Witnesses In Action.” (Photo courtesy of Tim Hetherington)

What started as a comedic family spoof made just for friends and posted on YouTube, turned into the ride of a lifetime that one UCLA student never expected. Read more...

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Fourth-year economics student Sunny Tripathy (far right) sits with his on-screen family from the student-made comedy “Keeping Up With the Guptas.” (Photo courtesy of Sunny Tripathy)

If there's one thing revered American playwright Tennessee Williams is good at, it's bittersweet devastation. The dark emotional signature also holds true in director Gordon Edelstein's take on the early, semi-autobiographical Williams play, "The Glass Menagerie," playing at the Mark Taper Forum through Oct. Read more...

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Credit: Mark Taper Forum