UCLA Live may arguably be the West Coast’s premiere producer in world-class performing arts. Artists from home and abroad take turns introducing the audience to the beautiful, the avant-garde and the shocking. Read more...

When Elizabeth Upton started her job as musicology professor at UCLA, she was not prepared for the initiation process: creating a new general enrollment course. A medievalist, Upton created “Getting Medieval,” a course about modern incarnations of medieval things from Wagner’s operas to Disneyland castles and “The Lord of the Rings.” “I didn’t know anything about getting a new course approved. Read more...

A cappella singing is gaining a stronger voice at UCLA. In the last several years, a handful of new a cappella groups and music events have sprouted up on campus, offering more and more students a chance to create music using only their voice. Read more...

Walking through the dorms, a person would have to try hard not to notice the shared folder icons on students’ computer screens and the sound of music libraries playing pirated copies of the latest hit singles. Read more...

After deciding to enroll at UCLA as a transfer student last summer, I quickly packed up my belongings and hauled them from my astonishingly affordable Venice apartment to pricier digs here in Westwood. Read more...

Los Angeles, home of celebrities, scandals and TV tapings — that’s right, many sitcoms, talk shows and a few game shows film within an hour’s drive from campus. Read more...

One short year ago, while I was at UCLA orientation, “XXX” premiered at the Village Theater in Westwood. Like most enthusiastic freshmen, I went to the red carpet ceremony, hoping to somehow sneak into the screening or at least meet Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Read more...