She’s capable of packing a stadium of 30,000 people back home in South America, but now vocalist Eva Ayllon is looking to fill a venue that holds fewer than 2,000 people in the United States. Read more...

The first time Michael Alden saw the music video for his group’s country Billboard chart single, he was in Dykstra Hall. Alden, a third-year music student, along with his sisters, identical twins Lauren Mills and Dana Burke, who graduated from UCLA in 2002, make up Malibu Storm ““ a country group whose success has snowballed in the past few months. Read more...

Reading music reviews can get tiresome for me. All too often, reviews of the same album will use identical angles and language, and, over time, reviews by a specific publication start to look interchangeable (e.g. Read more...

In a world obsessed with photography and its technology, UCLA’s Hammer Museum is now presenting an exhibition showing the revival of representational painting called “The Undiscovered Country.” While many have forgotten or ignored painting as an adequate means to depict reality since the popularization of photography, the Hammer Museum hopes to dispel such thoughts by displaying works representing modern reality in ways photography can’t. Read more...

UCLA can be a big place, whether you’re a first-year freshman or a super senior. And Los Angeles is even larger. So I’m sure there are lots of questions you must have about the school we call our home and the giant post-modern mess of a city that surrounds it. Read more...

There’s chatter circulating the L.A. theater world, and the rumor is that the new season at the Geffen Playhouse is riskier than in years past. If “Take Me Out,” playing now as part of the 10-year-long American Originals series, is any indication of what is to come, the buzz is right. Read more...

California dreamin’ might not be quite as light and breezy anymore, at least according to the featured artists in this year’s art department show, “Dark Side of the Sun,” curated by some of UCLA’s graduate art students. Read more...