Walk around UCLA during lunchtime and eavesdrop on some of the conversations. You’ll hear tidbits of gossip, vacuous banter about clothes, TV and parties, but you’ll rarely hear a conversation about Marc Chagall’s dimension of metaphor in the modernist art movement. Read more...

While its location in the Kinross Building just north of Wilshire isn’t the focal point of the UCLA campus, the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department hopes to make its presence felt through UCLArts. Read more...

The simplicity of Godfrey Reggio’s new film, “Naqoyqatsi,” is drenched with complexity. The film is easy to understand, but the ideas behind it are overwhelming. “If you’re simple-minded, life is either this or that, black and white, good or bad, America or Iraq,” Reggio said after the film’s L.A. Read more...

For the aging audience members who probably still remember a relevant Woodstock, and younger converts seeing him in the flesh for the first time, the last of Bob Dylan’s three shows at the Wiltern felt more like a reunion between old friends than a rock concert with a larger-than-life cultural icon. Read more...

Two theater festivals, both alike in dignity, in fair Los Angeles, where we lay our scene “¦ Unlike the star-crossed lovers of Shakespeare’s tragic play, the Edge of the World Theater Festival and UCLA Performing Arts’ first International Theater Festival are not explicit rivals, but rather are working together to bring a cutting-edge collection of local and international theatrical arts to Los Angeles. Read more...

Look at the TV cartoon lineup and you’ll find “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and “Digimon.” Go to theaters and you’ll find “Spirited Away” and “Pokemon 4Ever.” Japan may be across the Pacific, but its culture is definitely here. Read more...

Depending on what television shows or movies students watch, their expectations of college life probably fluctuate schizophrenically between keg stands seven nights a week and late nights at the library until the sun rises each morning. Read more...