So I’m taking it easy, thoroughly enjoying my pre-dinner snack of orange pineapple juice and a Ziploc bag full of jelly beans, when my playlist jumps to A Tribe Called Quest’s “If the Papes Come.” As is always the case with Tribe, I immediately feel a good deal cooler than I have any right to. Read more...

With rock ‘n’ roll blaring in the once-serene courtyard, jazz and electronica reverberating through plastic and bronze, and burgers next to “Breadface,” students are in the Hammer. Read more...

Cartoons are not just for children ““ a notion that the Tin Hat Quartet confirms with its performance of original scores to animations done by Russian filmmaker Ladislaw Starewicz. Read more...

Who else caught a glimpse of the heaps of screaming short guys, holding hands and yelling things in Greek, running around Westwood? The scene I saw this weekend can only mean one thing: last week was Rush Week on campus. Read more...

Nothing is more terrifying than the truth. Or so reads the tag line for Hollywood’s newest horror flick, “The Amityville Horror,” which opens in theaters Friday. Read more...

“The Best in Youth” Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana Miramax Films You may think you are just too busy to watch a six-hour Italian movie with subtitles. Read more...

When you come back to Los Angeles from break, you never know exactly how your apartment will look or what your roommates have been up to while you were gone. Read more...