When I was 11 and in the sixth grade, my friends and I would go to the movies right after school. After the final bell rang on Friday, we’d grab our backpacks, travel the four blocks or so to the local theater, and see the early afternoon screenings of movies like “Goldeneye” or “Beavis and Butthead Do America.” We weren’t very cool. Read more...

So what if you forgot to book a trip to that southern Mexican beach? Contrary to popular knowledge, Tijuana isn’t just a place to score cheap valium; it’s also the place closest to Los Angeles where you can bet with drunkards on a demented extreme sport called jai alai. Read more...

Oscar Wilde once argued that life imitates art, and if your only exposure to the OC so far has been one addictive, trashy and, dare I say it, artistically relevant FOX show, then spring break figures to be the prime time to scope out the sunbaked scenery in all its bare-skinned glory. Read more...

Zero. That’s how many applicants the UCLA theater directing graduate program admitted this year. Even though this year’s magic number is only two less than last year, zero does send a loud and clear message that the graduate directing program is not an easy fortress to breach. Read more...

Filmmaker Cynthia Newport has had dance in her blood since she first stepped onto a dance floor. Now she has a film to show for it. Read more...

Actors normally don’t take snapshots of each other during rehearsal, but for UCLA dorm residents acting in English Professor Frederick Burwick’s theatrical production, every moment of this rare experience must be captured. Read more...

“Secretary” and “Boogie Nights” Ackerman Grand Ballroom March 4-5, 7 and 9:30 p.m. While more people are probably familiar with P.T. Anderson’s “Boogie Nights” than with Steven Shainberg’s bizarre love story about a sadistic lawyer (James Spader) and his pain-loving secretary (Maggie Gyllenhaal), that doesn’t mean there’s no reason to see it. Read more...