Music has a way of blurring color lines and breaking cultural barriers, especially in the simmering melting pot of UCLA. Yiddishkayt L.A. and UCLA Hillel will apply this concept in a two-part event that explores Latino-Jewish relations and L.A. Read more...

Next to Knudsen Hall, Franz Hall and the Inverted Fountain, home to physics, astronomy and psychology, lies Schoenberg Hall, home of the music department. It seems that placing Schoenberg Hall on the cusp of North and South may have been the best case of going into foreign territory up until Nixon in China. Read more...

A new exhibit featuring a group of UCLA art students at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art not only examines the process of making art, it also gives viewers a chance to throw some art away. Read more...

Behind that calm, not too cool persona, Ice Cube is a hardworking business man. The one-time NWA lead rapper has become an enterprising multi-media star who attracts audiences, actors, and, most of all, investors. Read more...

Like pigeons to Bert’s (of Bert and Ernie on “Sesame Street”) shiny bottle caps on “Sesame Street,” the audience at the Wiltern Theatre Wednesday night came for pretty things. Read more...

In Elizabethan times, Shakespeare’s plays, with their puns and other linguistic manipulations, appealed to the ear. Today, Shakespeare’s language challenges the modern ear and often inhibits understanding of his plays. Read more...

There’s a lot more to Chinese cinema than kung fu and crouching tigers. The UCLA Film and Television Archive presents a two-week series, beginning Saturday at 7:30 p.m., of “New Chinese Cinema,” offering a selection of films from mainland China’s so-called Sixth Generation of filmmakers at the James Bridge Theater. Read more...