There are people, undoubtedly, who believe that engineering and belly-dancing are mutually exclusive. But these are people who have never sat in the audience at the Engineering Society's E-Week Idol, the talent competition that occurs tonight on the first night of Engineering Week. Read more...

Photo: ENGINEERING SOCIETY of UCLA Members of UCLA’s Engineering Society are preparing for tonight’s “E-Week Idol,” a talent competition that showcases the group’s non-engineering skills and artistic endeavors. The event is part of Engineering Week.

Facebook and a cappella may seem like an odd pairing, but not for the gentlemen of Bruin Harmony. Read more...

Photo: Bruin Harmony performs “I Shall Be Free” at the 2009 Spring Sing. The a cappella group will appear in David Fincher’s upcoming film, “The Social Network.”

The tune "Hello Ma Baby" was written around the turn of the 20th century, but it was immortalized in 1955 by a frog "“ Michigan J. Frog, actually, the vaudevillian Warner Bros. character, who sang it with a top hat and a cane in a cartoon called "One Froggy Evening." Read more...

Photo: Musician and UCLA alumna Megan Lynch performs in Berkeley in March. She released her first album last fall.

In a town like Westwood, one might expect a pretty girl with shining black curls and a flair for fashion to be headed out to a fraternity on a Thursday night. Read more...

Photo: Sephora Woldu with some of her favorite vinyl records. Thursday nights, Woldu can be found on the corner of Landfair and Ophir, DJing “Boom Box Thursdays.”

R&B singer Trey Songz is opening, along with Young Jeezy, for Jay-Z's national Blueprint 3 Tour which stops at the Staples Center on March 26. Read more...

Photo: Grammy-nominated R&B artist Trey Songz will open for Jay-Z at Staples Center March 26.

The Los Angeles Jewish Symphony attempts to bring forth compositional works by Jewish composers, as well as highlight pieces relating to the Jewish faith. However, tonight the symphony will perform a concert that also focuses on a human struggle that affects everyone regardless of religious affiliation: cancer. Read more...

Photo: “The Long Bright,” referring to the light at the end of a tunnel, features poetry by David Wolman written about his wife, Anni Baker (pictured above). The piece will be performed by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony tonight.