Less than a year ago, they were up on stage singing their hearts out. On Saturday, these former members of Random Voices, an on-campus all-female a capella group, were part of the audience, loudly cheering on the performing groups that sang during the fifth annual California A Capella Festival. Read more...

A monk who blinded himself in order to resist temptation. Women demand the right to divorce the husbands who abandoned them. The emergence of a 17th-century school of miniaturist painters. Read more...

In one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Academy Awards, “Crash,” director Paul Haggis’ meditation on racism, won Best Picture over the heavily favored “Brokeback Mountain” on Sunday night. Read more...

As people raised their hands for an opportunity to express their complaints, a Big Blue Bus customer representative frantically jotted down bus riders’ comments about the system on poster paper. Read more...

Larry King is usually the one doing the interviews. But when he spoke Thursday night at the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA, audience members got a chance to ask the broadcaster some of their own questions. Read more...

Born in the Baja town of Guymas, Luisa Martínez lived in Mexico for 18 years before enrolling in a San Diego junior college. Yet, when Martínez, now a 24-year-old UCLA student, votes for the first time in this year’s Mexican presidential election, she will be participating in the political process of a country she never plans to live in again. Read more...