For the current generation of college students, Randy Newman is a softy, known best for his film scoring and warmhearted songs such as "You've Got a Friend in Me" from "Toy Story." A new musical revue, "Harps and Angels," brings together 36 of Newman's songs in a high-energy, mostly satirical ballad to America's lowest lows. Read more...
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Courtesy of CRAIG SCHWARTZ
Take New York City's most insolate handicapped celebrity, a pair of convicts, a sassy secretary and a blundering doctor. Read more...
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The fall Hooligan Theatre production “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” opens today at the Sunset Recreation Center at 8 p.m. with performances through Monday.
At a first glance, members of the experimental-rock band Freaks in the Wild don't exactly live up to their name. Read more...
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UCLA alumnus, Piti Sukavivatanachai, sings and plays guitar for the Santa Barbara-based experimental-rock band, Freaks in the Wild. They will be performing alongside a number of other bands on Saturday at Operation Montezuma in Los Angeles. The band uses improvisation in both their recordings and shows to keep things fresh. (EVAN JANKE)
In third grade, third-year international development studies student Jagmeet "Hoodini" Singh started exploring music. In high school, Singh wrote his own rhymes and battled other rappers. Last year, Singh performed at the Sikh Art and Film Festival to an international audience. Read more...
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The annual Sikh Art and Film Festival opens this weekend at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. The festival celebrates Sikh culture. (JAG REYATT)
Sounds from the UCLA undergraduate theater students rehearsal of“The Trackers,” which will be performed Friday, Nov. 19 at the Getty Villa.
""The Trackers" rehearsal"As the afternoon sunlight filters through the windows of Macgowan Hall and illuminates the black rehearsal clothes of a group of UCLA theater undergraduates, they're not exactly acting as one would expect. Read more...
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Theater Professor Michael Hackett directs “The Trackers,” a Greek play by Sophocles that will be performed by UCLA theater students Friday and Saturday at the Getty Villa.
From an oil painting on canvas to a wall-sized wooden installation, the Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition at the New Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center will feature a broad variety of media and artistic styles. Read more...
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First-year art student Rodal Ajami’s painting of her sister, “Les Petite Papillion,” will be featured in the Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition.
Typically, doctors don't prescribe laughter when you're ill.
However, according to Gwendoline Yeo, a '97 UCLA alumna who has guest starred on "Desperate Housewives" and has done voice work for "Family Guy," laughter is the best medicine. Read more...
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Alumna Gwendoline Yeo plays the Chinese zither in her theatrical debut, “Laughing With My Mouth Wide Open” at the El
Centro Theatre. Yeo plays a total of 12 different characters in the semi-autobiographical one-woman performance.
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