The oven is your friend. When used properly, your oven can help you make a batch of cookies more cheaply than you can buy them at Diddy Riese, and it tosses in some perks, too: You get a warm, nice-smelling apartment and culinary bragging rights. Read more...

For most people who enjoy an aesthetic as fluid as ballet, technology and mechanics seem to reside leagues away from conventional symbols like tutus and pointe shoes. Read more...

Perhaps the UCLA theater department knew who the most influential voters would be in the 2004 election when it chose its lineup of plays for the winter. Read more...

They say you can never count on a sure thing. This is never more true than around the time when the Oscar nominations come out. Every year at 5:30 a.m. Read more...

Bad labels and obscurity can often hurt good movies. That’s why the UCLA Film and Television Archive uses “The Film That Inspired Me” series to help big-name artists catapult little-known, underrated films into the limelight they deserve. Read more...

Squashed between “Conversations with History” and “A Prologue to Chaucer,” an episode of “UCLA Next” aired nationwide last Tuesday on the UCTV station. “UCLA Next,” a half-hour documentary-style show, is produced by a television production class. Read more...

Breaking into the music industry is hard to do, and up-and-coming singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles knows all about it. Since graduating from UCLA with a degree in communication studies in 2003, Bareilles has devoted her time toward building a promising music career without taking shortcuts, relying instead on talent, hard work and a circle of people she believes she can trust. Read more...