For some time now, Los Angeles sports fans have bemoaned the absence of a professional football team. Great lengths have been taken to investigate the possibility of bringing a team back to this city. Read more...

When it comes right down to it, sometimes people just aren’t as interesting as their cars. The trailer for “Torque” hails the new Ice Cube-led motorcycle extravaganza as coming from the producers of “The Fast and the Furious,” and rightly so. Read more...

Why stare at your iBook until your eyes are crossed as you illegally download the new Strokes album, when you can be pillaging and plundering while drunk with a dagger between your teeth? Read more...

I made a mistake, but I’m only half-willing to take the blame. As far as I’m concerned, the other half goes to UCLA’s on-campus cable television setup. Read more...

We’ve got nothing against “The Lord of the Rings,” but let’s face it: It’s over. Literally. It’s done. Let’s all accept it and move on. Sure, it was great while it lasted, but the first step toward acceptance is breaking out of denial. Read more...

UCLA Live’s International Theatre Festival has already brought us the likes of the acclaimed Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre this season. Now, the festival gets set to shift into high gear again when Berlin’s celebrated avant-garde theater group, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz (or Volksbühne, for short), helmed by famed renegade director Frank Castorf, takes the stage for a three-day stint at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, running Dec. Read more...

In a scene from Tobias Wolff’s latest novel, “Old School,” a group of teenage boys are huddled around a fire in the lodge of their elite New England prep school while feisty writer Ayn Rand vehemently argues with the main character, a student consumed by literature, on the artistic merit of Ernest Hemingway. Read more...