“World Trade Center” Directed by Oliver Stone Paramount Pictures 2 OUT OF 5 STARS One thing already seems too clear about Hollywood’s versions of Sept. 11: It looks as if they’re going to keep suffering from the same problems plaguing Holocaust movies for decades. Read more...

As incoming freshmen, Kim Weisberg and Emika Abe knew how difficult it was to get into professional theater. Four years and many internships later, they’re well on their way. Read more...

Do you need to do laundry? I think you do. Or if you don’t, you will soon. I haven’t done laundry in a while. I’ve run out of comparable combinations within fashionable limitations. Read more...

For independent bands in 2006, the Internet and music blogs have become as vital as Xerox machines and fliers were to the trailblazing underground groups of the 1980s. Read more...

To Andrew Calara, “Snakes on a Plane” is more than just a summer movie. It’s his secret to victory. This past spring, Calara, a fourth-year computer science student, named his intramural Ultimate Frisbee team “Snakes on a Plane,” after the upcoming thriller film starring Samuel L. Read more...

For many people, summer vacation in Southern California means frolicking at the beach and diving into the ocean. But at UCLA, artists from Asia and the United States engage in a different kind of immersion. Read more...

New York City music club The Bottom Line opened its doors in 1974 with a jam session between Dr. John, Stevie Wonder and Johnny Winters. Twenty-nine years later, the club’s landowners at New York University deemed it “undervalued real estate” and The Bottom Line, which has hosted luminaries from nearly every genre of music, was forced to close its doors for the final time at the end of 2003. Read more...