ESPN’s Bill Simmons likes to joke that sports teams need “common-sense coordinators” to keep team officials from making stupid decisions. A common-sense coordinator would help an NFL coach keep track of his time-outs and would advise a baseball general manager against signing a fly-ball pitcher to play in a hitter’s park. Read more...

The meaning of life may be subjective, but the meaning of literature most certainly is. As such, the prose recitals of Samuel Beckett, writer of “Waiting for Godot,” will probably be unlike anything you have seen before. Read more...

Despite the benefits of absorbing a culture other than one’s own, it’s hard to find the money and time to visit another country. Fortunately, the UCLA ethnomusicology department is attempting to bring the musical experience of the Middle East to Westwood. Read more...

If Volkswagen’s Touareg SUV is all that comes to mind at the mention of the Tuareg people, a visit to the Fowler Museum at UCLA is in order. Read more...

It’s my party, and I’ll eat if I want to. Tomorrow I turn 21. This wonderful rite of passage will be marked by a marvelous celebration (read: insane party), complete with mudslides, martinis and pot stickers. Read more...

“Marie Antoinette” Director Sofia Coppola Columbia Pictures Marie Antoinette, the storied 19-year-old Queen of France, is probably most well-known in history classes across the world for her early and tragic death at the fall of the Versailles court, and for uttering the careless catchphrase, “Let them eat cake.” However, “Lost in Translation” director Sofia Coppola leaves the trademarks and any conventional historical-film practices behind in her adaptation of the young queen’s life. Read more...

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