PHOTO COURTESY OF COMEDY CENTRAL Comedy Central BattleBots come in a variety of different shapes and sizes. By Sarah Monson Daily Bruin Contributor Only Comedy Central would bring together tattooed, mullet-sporting auto mechanics with Palo Alto computer nerds, face them off against each other in a ring and produce a surprisingly fair fight. Read more...

  PHOTO COURTESY OF PASEDENA PLAYHOUSE Pasadena Playhouse June Angela (left) and Lina Patel star in “Ikebana (Living Flowers)” by Velina Hasu Houston. The show will run through Oct. Read more...

  PHOTOS COURTESY OF UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY Darryl Sivad’s pictures try to capture the relationship between the old generation and the new. Shown here is 3-year-old Nitjasin Zakariya Quach Phyakul with a portrait of his maternal great-grandparents. Read more...

Oct. 10 Barenaked Ladies, 8 p.m. @ Universal Amphitheater, www.ticketmaster.com Oct. 11 FREE advance screening of "Ladies Man," 6 p.m. @ Freud Playhouse FREE advance screening of "Ladies Man," 6 p.m. Read more...

Photos by MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Wes Borland, guitarist for Limp Bizkit, performs in his signature eerie face paint. A variety of performers, over-flowing outhouses, a barrage of security guards, and a mediocre fireworks display which only a stoner could appreciate characterized the 3rd Annual Cypress Hill Smokeout. Read more...

  Hype! Margaret Cho‘s concert film, "I’m the One that I Want", chronicles her rise, fall and recovery during and after the airing of her sitcom. Read more...

  Illustration by ERICA PINTO/Daily Bruin By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Senior Staff Although many people might think of arthritis as a minor ailment suffered exclusively by the elderly, it affects a much more significant part of the population. Read more...