LISA WAHLANDER Coordinating producer Nikki Webster interviews Robert Magee, a fourth-year electrical engineering student at UCLA. Participants were interviewed only after they passed a written test. Read more...

  Illustration by JENNY YURSHANSKY/Daily Bruin By Emilia Hwang Daily Bruin Senior Staff Instant bands and manufactured singing sensations will inevitably disfigure the face of U.S. Read more...

  Illustration by RACHEL REILICH/Daily Bruin By Barbara McGuire Daily Bruin Senior Staff Getting reservations at a restaurant seems simple, but for some it’s cutthroat competition. Read more...

  Ballantine Books Terry Brooks revives his Shannara’ series. By Leila Mobayen Daily Bruin Contributor For die-hard fans of fantasy/non-fiction writing, the 1977 release of “The Sword of Shannara,” written by Terry Brooks, marked the beginning of a new era. Read more...

  MEST "Wasting Time" Mest “Wasting Time” Maverick Records Mest has emerged on the punk scene, sounding perilously close to Green Day, wailing on about love in a fashion that is part Sid and Nancy and part junior high. Read more...

  Cuckoo’s Nest Productions An exuberant Randle Patrick McMurphy (Rick Reardon, right) first greets the patients of the mental hospital to which he has been admitted. Read more...

  Miramax Films Ben Affleck (left) and Matt Damon, shown here in "Good Will Hunting," are letting an unknown writer direct his own screenplay, which they will star in. Read more...