In an era where rigid classical performance values have been replaced by the “do-it-yourself” and “wing-it” mantras of mainstream music, the music department’s class titled Artsong insists on the importance of traditional performance methods to help music students strengthen their craft. Read more...

Being kings and queens of jazz is not the only thing Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald have in common. Read more...

“Still” Kinross Room 126 Today ““ Saturday 8 p.m. UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures presents dance performances choreographed by second-year graduate students Ana Maria Alvarez, Esther Baker, Liam Clancy and Iddi Saaka. Read more...

Looking solely at the premise of “The Girl Next Door,” it would seem to be treading on well-worn territory: A goody-two-shoes high school boy breaks out of his straight-arrow persona with the help of a sexy girl. Read more...

Franz Ferdinand The Cooperage Tuesday 8 p.m. At last, someone is surpassing the boundaries of garage rock, and they come from Scotland. Franz Ferdinand maintains what was good about the revival in the first place, but hikes it up a notch with its quirky attitude and arty personality. Read more...

For 2003 UCLA graduate ChiChi Nnadi, going back to school is part of his job. Hired last year by MTV, Nnadi is now a video jockey for the station’s newest branch, mtvU. Read more...

After the conquest of India by the British Empire in 1857, India’s representation in the Western world had been forever changed. The photographs displayed in the UCLA Fowler Museum’s deeply historical new exhibition “Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation, 1850-1900″ explore how the portrayal of a vast nation has been packaged and sold. Read more...