Walking through Schoenberg Music Building on a Thursday night you might hear Brazilian drums grooving. What you’d be hearing is the Brazilian Percussion Workshop and Ensemble organized by Beto Gonzalez, departmental scholar in the Latin American Studies department. Read more...

When Mos Def, Da Brat, Monica Calhoun and MC Lyte get together in a film, the set might be expected to have a bumping atmosphere something like “House Party.” Instead, UCLA film and television professor Neema Barnette assembled them together for a film about how prisons are home to new slave labor with clients, according to Barnette, such as Victoria’s Secret, Lee Dungarees and Tommy Hilfiger. Read more...

They’re not just good at math and chemistry. They’re not always in the library studying atomic physics, and no, they’re not always playing the violin or video games. Read more...

Even though this is only All Tomorrow’s Parties’ second year in the United States, there are plenty of reasons to be scared for its quality. In the recent “Best of 2002″ issue, the Daily Bruin named last spring’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival the top arts event of the year. Read more...

With all of the Oscar buzz circulating, Nicole Kidman is certainly one actress who’s being buzzed the loudest. Being a native-born Australian shouldn’t be any hurdle in winning the American award; the iconic Aussie Russell Crowe won Best Actor in 2000 and according to Kidman, she could win in a fight any day. Read more...

Twenty-two years ago, Chuck Barris sat down at his typewriter with dreams of writing the great American novel. For a man dubbed the “˜King of Shlock,’ it was admittedly a very big dream. Read more...

After a conversation about childhood ambitions with her friends, fourth-year graduate directing student Abigail Severance realized she’s not anywhere near what her twenty-year-old self imagined she would be. Read more...