This quarter, the UCLA Department of Theater decided to try something old and something new. The 16th-century French comedy “The Marriage of Figaro” by Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais opens today and will run in repertory through March 11 along with “Il Gelosi,” written and directed by visiting UCLA Professor David Bridel, in collaboration with graduate acting students. Read more...

Anyone who’s seen a light show or Disney’s “Fantasia” has witnessed the genre of art known as visual music ““ and probably without knowing it. Expanding the reach of visual music is precisely the goal of “Abstraction and Visual Music: Contemporary Animation from Los Angeles Artists,” to be screened by Melnitz Movies on Feb. Read more...

It’s crazy how much UCLA can change over four years. Whenever I talk with current freshmen about my own first year, I can’t help but sound like I was living in an archaic era. Read more...

I hate my iPod. A lot. Let me tell you why. I received my iPod as a high school graduation gift. This was when not many people had iPods, and the only ones who did were wannabe-hipster scads who ran around, iPods clipped to their belts, proclaiming, “Oh Marcus, you must listen to this wonderful band called Guster! Read more...

On a road trip to San Francisco with some friends, Arthur Magazine’s founder Jay Babcock began writing down the names of the best performing musicians who were the least well-known. Read more...

With just a week and a half remaining on the calendar until Oscar night, it’s time to start thinking about whom you’re going to pick in your local pool. Read more...

For some, art museums can be valuable venues of cultural, historical and artistic achievement to be cherished for many generations. To others, art museums are forbidding enclaves of hoarded, ancient relics accessible only to a select group of fanatics in stuffy rooms behind thick, uninviting walls. Read more...