Dave Matthews Band “Stand Up” RCA Records In the summer of 2004, David J. Matthews was on the move. His band was on tour, unveiling four new songs, and in the tumultuous time just before the presidential election, it participated in the Vote For Change concerts along with artists like Bruce Springsteen. Read more...

As the dancers twirl for their native land, the audience at UCLA is transported to a traditional world of vibrant color, passionate movement and fluttering sounds of a guitar. Read more...

Graduate students now have a huge nighttime on-campus event they can almost exclusively call their own. Three years after its inception, the UCLA Anderson School’s Fashion Show has been transformed into a large-scale event, complete with a soundstage and designers such as Guess and Adidas. Read more...

What am I supposed to get at the market?” At this point in the year, your roommate has bought everything he sees on the shelves at least once. Read more...

Teatro Revolver’s production, “Circuses without Bread,” features a giant, a hairy woman and a spoof of “American Idol.” Oh, and it also grapples with themes of racism, feminism and homosexuality. Read more...

Weezer “Make Believe” Geffen Records The following are Pop Up Video-worthy factoids about Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo: “¢bull; After the initially panned album “Pinkerton,” Cuomo holed up in a Los Angeles apartment for a year, disconnecting the phone, painting the walls black, and putting black sheets and fiberglass insulation over the windows. Read more...

For those members of the UCLA community who do not know that the Disney film “Aladdin” originated within a frame story about a virgin trying to avoid execution, the English department’s annual Marathon Reading will be an enlightening experience. Read more...