Entering the mind of another human may seem impossibly sci-fi. But the UCLA Hammer Museum and its three new exhibits make the process fun and easy. Read more...

Second-year Will Froelich has no idea what the Fowler Museum of Cultural History is. Peter Young doesn’t know that the museum is free to UCLA students. Read more...

Films are usually rated by the Motion Pictures Association of America with notations like “R,” “PG-13,” and the dreaded “NC-17.” The ratings system at Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation goes a bit further; it has the Puke-o-meter. Read more...

Jurassic 5 “Power in Numbers” Interscope Records After introducing itself to mainstream audiences with its 2000 LP debut “Quality Control,” underground hip-hop sextet Jurassic 5 returns with “Power in Numbers,” a sophomore effort that lacks the power and excitement exuding from its predecessor. Read more...

Despite the beginning-of-the-year bustle, the play is still the thing. At least it is for the UCLA Shakespeare Reading and Performance Group. In existence since 1993, the group is a motley crew of Bruins varying in age, race, discipline and association with the university, but with one thing in common: the love of theater. Read more...

A tub of some cheap, oily, fried chicken and porn. These are some of the many simple pleasures that males with a smidgen of lukewarm blood flowing in their veins enjoy. Read more...

“I’d got back to the new pad depressed that morning, having blown the last of the coke and started jerking off to a newspaper picture of Hillary Clinton in a power suit running for Senator of New York.” So says Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson, initiating the first in a series of many depraved sex acts in Irvine Welsh’s latest book, “Porno,” the sequel to 1996’s incredibly popular “Trainspotting.” Only this time, instead of scamming in order to score heroin, Simon has his sights set on world domination via a single, earth-shatteringly original porno film, made right above the bar he now owns. Read more...