There was a time when Janell Escalera hated mariachi music. It’s hard to believe that the second-year ethnomusicology student and mariachi performer ever felt this way because Escalera now devotes her life to the art form. Read more...

The $20 tickets for the Egyptian Theater on Saturday night were worth it. These pricey tickets were for the sneak preview of Nicolas Cage’s latest project, “Adaptation,” the centerpiece of the American Cinematheque’s Real Wild Child tribute to the Oscar winning Cage last weekend. Read more...

Music has a way of blurring color lines and breaking cultural barriers, especially in the simmering melting pot of UCLA. Yiddishkayt L.A. and UCLA Hillel will apply this concept in a two-part event that explores Latino-Jewish relations and L.A. Read more...

Next to Knudsen Hall, Franz Hall and the Inverted Fountain, home to physics, astronomy and psychology, lies Schoenberg Hall, home of the music department. It seems that placing Schoenberg Hall on the cusp of North and South may have been the best case of going into foreign territory up until Nixon in China. Read more...

A new exhibit featuring a group of UCLA art students at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art not only examines the process of making art, it also gives viewers a chance to throw some art away. Read more...

Like pigeons to Bert’s (of Bert and Ernie on “Sesame Street”) shiny bottle caps on “Sesame Street,” the audience at the Wiltern Theatre Wednesday night came for pretty things. Read more...

In Elizabethan times, Shakespeare’s plays, with their puns and other linguistic manipulations, appealed to the ear. Today, Shakespeare’s language challenges the modern ear and often inhibits understanding of his plays. Read more...