Depending on what television shows or movies students watch, their expectations of college life probably fluctuate schizophrenically between keg stands seven nights a week and late nights at the library until the sun rises each morning. Read more...

“The Ring” Directed by Gore Verbinski DreamWorks SKG 3.5 Paws While “The Ring” may have started with foreign roots, the American remake of the Japanese thriller will likely generate its own success in the States, putting an end to the recent slew of mass-produced cheap thrillers scaring movie patrons away from the box office. Read more...

In a male dominated Hollywood, where women active on both sides of the camera are still scarce in numbers, there was an Ida Lupino who managed to act, direct, write, and produce films within the Hollywood studio system as early as the ’40s. Read more...

Just like many rockers who grew up in the ’80s, singer John Schmersal of the exuberant and eclectic rock group “Enon” enjoys waxing nostalgically about the music of the past. Read more...

“˜The Last DJ’ Who more fitting than Jim Ladd, one of the last free-form radio DJ’s, to introduce Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their Tuesday night show, as the band played its new album, “The Last DJ,” in its entirety at the Grand Olympic Auditorium? Read more...

Most UCLA students use index cards as a means to memorize material covered in class. Well, four UCLA alumni are using them as a material to cover something quite different ““ their genitals. Read more...

Mimes and contortionists and sopranos, oh my! James Thiérrée’s “The Junebug Symphony” employs everything from carnies to Spanish opera singers in a dream-like extravaganza at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Read more...