Jake, What’s it like to go to college with boys?! -Katherine Bauer Just to clarify, Katherine’s a third-year student at Smith College in Massachusetts, a school famous in part for being an all-girl’s institution. Read more...

In Los Angeles, a night out dancing usually entails some pleather, a DJ and a venue with a name like The Boogie. But this Saturday night in the Powell Library Rotunda, members of the UCLA community can travel back to a time before the art of freaking had ever possessed the hips of the teenage population. Read more...

Against all odds, they didn’t muck it up ““ not entirely at least. In the doomed world of sequels and their accompanying unrealistically high expectations, “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason,” proves to be a distant second to the 2001 classic. Read more...

The first AFI FEST (then known as Filmex) began on Nov. 4, 1971, with the premiere of Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show.” The film went on to be nominated for eight Oscars, winning two. Read more...

For unconventional classical music ensemble Bang on a Can, the context of the works it selects to perform holds nearly the same importance as the quality of the works themselves. Read more...

The electro rhythms of French pop-rock group Air will fill Royce Hall on Nov. 12-13 as the soundtrack to Ballet Preljocaj’s “Near Life Experience.” Whimsical rock musicians Jean-Benoit Dunckel and Nicolas Godin of Air, who wrote the music for “The Virgin Suicides” in 2000, have composed a completely original soundtrack for the bold new ballet by Angelin Preljocaj. Read more...