UCLA Performing Arts Eye-catching visuals complement the high energy of the Angelin Preljocaj-choreographed "Paysage Apres La Bataille (Landscape After the Battle)". By Kelsey McConnell Daily Bruin Contributor Ballet Preljocaj’s “Paysage Apres la Bataille (Landscape After the Battle),” premiering in Royce Hall Friday night, is an experimental blend of the paintings of artist/theorist/iconoclast Marcel Duchamp and the fiction of writer Joseph Conrad. Read more...

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  The Pharcyde “Cydeways: Best Of” The Pharcyde “Cydeways: Best Of” Delicious Vinyl/Rhino Oh, this is just too sad. One of the greatest early ’90s rap groups has been reduced to releasing greatest hits compilations after only three albums. Read more...

  Photos by MINDY ROSS/Daily Bruin Senior Staff B-Real and his group Cypress Hill headlined the self-titled Third Annual Smokeout on Oct. 7 at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino. Read more...