Los Angeles’ Chinatown is perhaps best known for its quaint, if somewhat scruffy, streets, lined with shop-houses and buildings that alternate between historically interesting and downright downtrodden. Read more...

In a pitch-black studio, a 20-inch television is turned on, the screen facing a white wall. The channels are constantly changing, and the volume stays low. Read more...

Can a neighborhood sell out? Opening today, “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” questions whether the benefits of revitalizing the ‘hood truly is worth the cost of  its soul and identity. Read more...

Many students and faculty skipped their usual Kerckhoff Coffeehouse run Wednesday, in favor of an afternoon of art and complimentary refreshments just next door. Samba music and mingling observers filled the usually empty Kerckhoff Art Gallery, as the Associated Students of UCLA’s Art in the Union program hosted a reception Wednesday afternoon to honor the winning entries in its annual Art in the Union program. Read more...

At military funerals today, it’s not an unusual sight to see a person playing “Taps” with a digital bugle, or to hear a recording of the famous tune playing on a boom box. Read more...

Film School The Cooperage Feb. 6, 8 p.m. With a moody and dynamic palette of sounds, Film School is sure to win over the hearts of arty pretentious types everywhere. Read more...

“The Animation Show” may prove to be the perfect compromise for students appalled by the shock value tactics of “Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation,” yet too intellectually pretentious for Saturday morning cartoons. Read more...