Thursday, January 22, 1998 Meet documentarian in real life and through his movies FILM: Albert Maysles series to feature direct cinema, panel, workshop By William Li Daily Bruin Contributor No scripts. Read more...

Thursday, January 22, 1998 Ex-con Socrates ponders life in new Mosley novel BOOK: Poignant series of vignettes bare insight to truths of urban living By Cheryl Klein Daily Bruin Senior Staff It’s hard to imagine spending 27 years in prison, then being released onto the streets of Watts to make a living foraging for aluminum cans. Read more...

Thursday, January 22, 1998 From acetylene to zinc, Beakman explains it all TELEVISION: Popular program proves to both children, adults that science is meant to be fun By Megan Dickerson Daily Bruin Contributor To parents, it’s mucus. Read more...

Thursday, January 22, 1998 Friends to Thien FILM: The murder of UCLA graduate Thien Minh Ly prompted an outpouring of community support and a film, ‘Letters to Thien,’ that documents the emotion surrounding his life and the crime By Vanessa VanderZanden Daily Bruin Staff Our eyes roam across the brutally graphic details of front page headlines so often that we forget the victims involved even have names. Read more...

Wednesday, January 21, 1998 ‘Oscar and Lucinda’ portrays no ordinary love story FILM Tragic project weathers search for cast, shooting movie By Aimee Phan Daily Bruin Staff Films can languish in pre-production anywhere from several months to several decades. Read more...

Wednesday, January 21, 1998 A couple of wild and crazy guys THEATER Steve Martin stages a comedic meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" By Cheryl Klein Daily Bruin Senior Staff Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. Read more...

Wednesday, January 21, 1998 Teen angst OPERA L.A. Opera revives "Salome," Strauss’ dark tale of a princess who will stop at nothing to get what she wants By John Mangum Daily Bruin Contributor Meet Salome, the adolescent from hell. Read more...