Illustration by CASEY CROWE/Daily Bruin By Suneal Kolluri Daily Bruin Contributor Planning exciting trips can be a frustrating task and prospective travelers often drown themselves in travel guides, hotel brochures and traveler’s checks. Read more...

  Cyrus McNally McNally is a fourth-year neuroscience student. Check out his verbose columnistry in the history of modern music every Wednesday, same bat time, same bat channel. Read more...

  The Pharcyde “Cydeways: Best Of” The Pharcyde “Cydeways: Best Of” Delicious Vinyl/Rhino Oh, this is just too sad. One of the greatest early ’90s rap groups has been reduced to releasing greatest hits compilations after only three albums. Read more...

  Photos by MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff B-Real and his group Cypress Hill headlined the self-titled Third Annual Smokeout on Oct. 7 at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino. Read more...

From hip hop to teen pop, Bruins listen to a wide variety of musical styles while on campus. Here’s a look at what some students are enjoying. Read more...

  UCLA Performing Arts Combining traditional Japanese Butoh with German expressionist modern dance, Japanese-born dancers Eiko and Koma create pulsating works of beauty. “˜When Nights Were Dark’ Choreographers Eiko and Koma will perform their new work, “When Nights Were Dark,” at the Japan America Theatre Thursday, Feb. Read more...

  Illustration by DANNY HONG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff By David Holmberg Daily Bruin Contributor Many people use the QuickTime computer application simply to play movies, but according to Vivian Sobchack, associate dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, the program has the potential to be used for so much more. Read more...