The daughter of a British professor and esteemed Egyptologist, Lillian Bowell has found ways of having her own sort of fun within the stifling properness of Victorian England. Read more...

UCLA students have the world at their fingertips "“ or perhaps it's more like they have the world at their ears. Read more...

"Why do we have to grow up?" animator, visionary and entrepreneur Walt Disney once asked. Read more...

The host at The Farm in Beverly Hills greeted me by name when my friend and I walked into the rustic, dim restaurant. Read more...

Some scrawl equations on the blackboards of CS 24 while others hide behind stacks of history textbooks on the top floors of Bunche. While they may carry the same leather briefcases as the other professors at UCLA, their lives are not confined to the ivory tower: They're artists, too. Read more...

In Iceland, the Dimmu borgir is a lava formation that, according to folklore, connects earth and hell. In Norway, Dimmu Borgir is a band that links the operatic melodies of classical symphonies with the demonic growling and blast beats of black metal. Read more...

If all art is meant to evoke a response, then Neil LaBute's cynical play "Fat Pig" is a resounding success. As the audience flinched its way out of the tiny Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at Westwood's Geffen Playhouse, the mirror that LaBute reliably holds up to our wobbly sense of political correctness had us all questioning our smug conviction in our own social consciences. Read more...