To exemplify the influence blues guitarist and singer Muddy Waters had on the music world, filmmaker Robert Gordon describes an early ’60s Rolling Stones concert. The band, whose name also comes from a Waters’ song, covered “I Just Want To Make Love To You,” one of Waters’ biggest hits. Read more...

We were finally in at Swastique, the overpriced hot-to-trot West Hollywood dining spot rumored to be the home base of operations for Rupert Murdoch’s dastardly TV Inner Circle. Read more...

Cinematography Professor William McDonald wears many hats. He’s been vice chairman of production in the UCLA Department of Film and Television for five years as well as the head of cinematography for those same five years, and he’s sat on the graduate student council for the past three years. Read more...

Julia Sweeney’s new one-woman show, “In The Family Way,” is the most remarkable unremarkable show you’ll probably see all year. You know Sweeney from her years on “Saturday Night Live” and characters like Pat or her previous one-woman show, “God Said, “˜Ha!'” You know she has a loud, but sweet, sense of humor and the ability to masterfully embody her characters. Read more...

Mix together a communication studies student and a physics student, add in a sketch comedy show about sex and a dash of some orange blossom and chocolate cake. Read more...

This June, Los Angeles’ second incarnation of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival opens at Royce Hall. Despite not taking place exclusively ““ or even primarily ““ on campus, this year’s festival is shaping up to be at least nearly on par with the past year’s, easily UCLA’s best arts event of 2002. Read more...

“Manic” Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt IFC Films “Manic” plays like it wishes it were a documentary. The shaky camera angles as well as the washed-out colors of digital give “Manic” a borrowed kind of realism. Read more...