By Allison Hunter Daily Bruin Contributor There’s no business like show business, and no one knows that better than Gil Cates. An Emmy award-winning director and producer, Cates was honored with a special tribute Wednesday evening for his numerous contributions to the entertainment industry as well as his work as founding dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Read more...

By Chris Young Daily Bruin Contributor Besides the Laker game, there was another big event in downtown L.A. Wednesday night. Three generations of musicians congregated at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to recreate the sounds of a past era in Los Angeles: Central Avenue, the vanguard of Los Angeles’ jazz scene in the first half of the twentieth century. Read more...

By Terry Tang Daily Bruin Senior Staff It is Thanksgiving, a day to cherish family, friends and life. A fisherman, minding his own business, suddenly finds a distraught and dehydrated boy clinging to an inner tube in ocean waters off the Florida coast. Read more...

By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Staff Beginning today, the UCLA Conference on Mexican Literature and Culture for the Millennium aims to explore the diverse art and heritage of Mexico and the border United States. Read more...

By Angela Salazar Daily Bruin Senior Staff Thumb-sucking children have more to fear than getting an overbite. In the morbid style of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey, “Shockheaded Peter” tells tales of strangely entertaining ways to punish disobedient children. Read more...

David Gray “White Ladder” ATO Records The windows are open and the rumbling trucks roll past the small house in London where David Gray is recording his fourth, self-financed album. Read more...

By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Staff It’s five o’clock and time to kick back, go to the local pub, meet some friends, network with new business contacts and drink juice. Read more...