The audience’s laughter at a performance of “The Cherry Orchard” on Feb. 10 was utterly fascinating. Anton Chekhov’s seminal play, showing until March 19th at the Mark Taper Forum, follows the plight of an aristocratic family struggling to avoid the sale of its estate. Read more...

Matchbook Romance “Voices” Epitaph Records Matchbook Romance realized what many emotion-ridden bands of today have yet to discover ““ screaming instead of singing won’t grant you immortality in the music world. Read more...

Arctic Monkeys “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” Domino Records The Arctic Monkeys must be doing something right. The pop-rock quartet nearly beat out Oasis as the fastest-selling U.K. Read more...

“Tale of Cinema” Directed by Hong Sang-soo Undistributed Of Korea’s major directors, Hong Sang-soo may be the least marketable. This is a tall order, considering his relatively tame content contains none of the extreme sadomasochism ““ a man mutilating himself by swallowing a line of fishhooks in Kim Ki-duk’s “The Isle,” another pulling teeth as a form of torture in Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” ““ often associated with the recent cinema from the country. Read more...

The images are unforgettable. Ruined homes barely poking out of murky water. The living wading among the dead. Thousands fleeing over flooded freeway overpasses, hoping to be rescued. Read more...

As a senior at midterms time winter quarter, I’m really ready to graduate and join the real world. And until recently, the only thing holding me back from truly wanting to be done with school was the vision I had of my post-college self as one of the jobless and homeless people occupying a bench on Le Conte Avenue. Read more...

For many students at UCLA, the words “South Campus” evoke images of sleep-deprived students laboring over calculus and chemistry, enduring rigorous schedules in order to become future doctors, engineers and mathematicians. Read more...