It could have gone the distance:George Clooney's latest film, in which he both directs and stars, is packed with charismatic actors, stylized costumes and beloved pieces of Americana. Read more...

Scorsese, who also directed another seminal concert documentary, "The Last Waltz," opens the film with quick cuts of hasty preparations in a gritty black-and-white picture, finalizing a set list and positioning the cameras. When a grip tells him the position of a light might overheat if focused in a certain way on Jagger, the director humorously says, "We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him." Read more...

There are only so many hours a shopper can spend scouring Third Street Promenade and Westwood Village. Read more...

Every morning, third-year computer science student Matt Sperry wakes up to a big picture of Kurt Russell astride a motorcycle, clad in a leather vest and an eye patch. Read more...

The common conception of the American musical is little Austrian children running through fields, chimney sweeps tap-dancing on rooftops, and the ever-present rain in Spain, but HOOLIGAN Theatre Company's production of "Bat Boy: The Musical" features blood, violence, incest and an interspecies orgy. Read more...

With a mathematics degree and a dread of writing and public speaking, UCLA alumnus Philip Yaffe would not have expected to be the Daily Bruin editor-in-chief, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, a journalism teacher with the Peace Corps and, most recently, the author of the writing and speech book "In the "˜I' of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing and Speaking (Almost) like a Professional." Read more...

Westwood is a perpetual disappointment when it comes to the culinary state of our little village. Read more...