It’s the holiday season! And that means one thing for students everywhere ““ papers and finals. The point is, it’s the most miserable time of the year for us: As the rest of society savors the magic in the air and spreads cheer to their fellow neighbors, we’re stuck clawing for sleep hours as we try to get up to speed in our classes. Read more...

For any band, having Kurt Cobain as an avid fan would definitely have come in handy. For the cult metal band The Melvins, that led to a record deal in 1993 with Atlantic Records. Read more...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people videotape themselves doing one thing. I know what you’re thinking, and it has nothing to do with those scandalous sex tapes pseudo-celebrities “accidently” leak to the public to boost their popularity. Read more...

The Francis Ford Coppola One-Act Marathon generally features film directors who are crossing over into theater. But Michael Aspinwall, the director of the musical “High School!” said “(his) background is shady.” Aspinwall graduated from UCLA in 2004 with a degree in theater performance and is currently working on his masters degree in theater education and critical studies. Read more...

As bizarre as it reads in print, in his new work “Caroline, or Change,” playwright Tony Kushner has written perhaps the first stream-of-consciousness musical. The difficult literary style associated with modernism, made famous by James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Read more...

The sheer mention of the high school homecoming parade usually either invokes euphoria or promotes apathy. But playwright Katherine Ruppe wants to rekindle an interest in the topic. Read more...

“Bad Education” Directed by Pedro Almodóvar Sony Pictures Classics At the risk of being criticized by film students everywhere, Pedro Almodóvar is the modern-day Federico Fellini. Read more...