Girl meets boy, boy meets another girl, girl kills new girl ““ all choreographed into an eight-minute dance performance set to upbeat music. The 14-member Hindi Film Dance Team wrote and choreographed this dance, which will be performed as part of UCLA Fowler Museum’s “Family Festival: India!” The festival also will feature a print-making workshop, henna tattooing and performances by the Nupoor Spiritual Dance Company, blue13 Dance Company and the UCLA Bhangra Team. Read more...

In a bold attempt to revive the spirit of jazz music, the Student Committee for the Arts is launching the third of four performances in its Jazz at the Grand series tonight in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon. Read more...

Singer and songwriter Holly Long didn’t always want to be a musician. It wasn’t until her mid-20s that the UCLA grad seriously thought about music as a career. Read more...

Who needs “American Idol” when we have our very own high-drama performance contest, Spring Sing, right here at UCLA? Friday night, 17 acts in the categories of solo/duet, band, a cappella/ensemble and production will each have three minutes to belt out their best tune in front of an audience of 5,000 people at the UCLA Tennis Center. Read more...

For most 10-year-olds, riding bikes and long division are the most important things in the world. But for fifth-grader Dakota Fanning, reading scripts and memorizing lines is what occupies her time. Read more...

“13 Going on 30″ Directed by Gary Winick Columbia Pictures There’s a thin line between cute and annoying. At best, “13 Going on 30″ totters in between the two. Read more...

For cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs, there exists a sort of “pay it forward” mentality in regards to the film industry. Because his teacher taught him in Hungary, he has promised to educate the next generation of filmmakers in return. Read more...