In the Scottish play, a flabbergasted Macduff, not knowing what to make of the two sides he’s just witnessed of the exiled Malcolm, famously utters, “Such welcome and unwelcome things at once / ‘Tis hard to reconcile.” Macduff’s lines neatly sum up the Shakespeare’s Globe production of “Twelfth Night” now playing to sold-out houses at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Read more...

Christopher Gorham has UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television to thank for his marriage. The star of UPN’s new show “Jake 2.0″ met his wife in an acting class when he was attending school here about 10 years ago. Read more...

Jacqueline Warwick is just one example of a pioneering musicologist from UCLA. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 after writing a dissertation on the connection between popular music in the 1960s and the female identity. Read more...

Recent landscape architecture graduate Claire Touze-Shawaf has visions of a children’s park near LAX without any metal monkey bars or slides. Her model involves a miniature Stonehenge that helps kids spot certain stars, and grass mazes just tall enough for small children to completely submerge. Read more...

By Jake Tracer dB MAGAZINE SENIOR STAFF [email protected] At 6613 1/2 Hollywood Blvd., among the sex and novelty shops, east of the wax museum and tourist traps, there exists, well, a boarded up building with a big “For Lease” sign posted on it. Read more...

Picture a Broadway musical starring nine distinctive personalities and talents. Take away the melodrama, and then add some high-end hip-hop and original poetry. The result is the “Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam.” In essence, “Def Poetry Jam” is a presentation of performance poetry inspired by current events. Read more...

My Ralphs Senior Rewards Club Card is wasting away in my wallet. How I got my hands on a Senior Rewards Club Card that saves $1 for every $10 spent isn’t important. Read more...