Among the many perks of being a UCLA student is being within the vicinity of Hollywood, at the hub of one of the largest entertainment industries on the planet. Read more...
Photo: Amy Poehler, whose voice is featured in the soon-to-be released “Free Birds,” attended the movie’s Westwood premiere.
Over 5,000 globe beach balls are entwined around the front entrance and tower of the Fowler Museum. Like vines, they coil out of the heart of the Fowler building, the inner courtyard, both separating and uniting the building. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Fowler Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary with eight exhibitions. Most of the Fowler’s new exhibitions will be open until Jan. 26, with others running an extended showcase until March 2.
The Street Hearts wooed the crowd Friday night at The Roxy, marking the band’s first Los Angeles performance off campus. With an uncommon combination of folk and soul inspired music, the concert debuted the band as one of raw talent and originality. Read more...
UCLA alumna, Larissa Auble, who goes by the stage name Madysin Hatter, first stumbled upon rock ‘n’ roll in her family’s basement. Hatter, who grew up listening to show tunes and Broadway soundtracks, found her parents’ old Aerosmith records to be instantly compelling. Read more...
Photo: Madysin Hatter, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna, brings her ’80s rock sound to Sunset Boulevard’s famed Whisky a Go Go tonight, as she opens for Hookers & Blow and Dizzy Reed of Guns N’ Roses. This is Hatter’s third performance at the popular Los Angeles venue.
Perhaps the most ironic movie moment of the year so far occurred in late September, when the script for upcoming WikiLeaks thriller “The Fifth Estate,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as founder Julian Assange, was leaked on WikiLeaks. Read more...
A new theater production is once again giving voice to the story of the HIV/AIDS crisis in New York City during the early 1980s. Originally written by Larry Kramer in 1985, “The Normal Heart” has since become a success on Broadway, as well as in theaters in Los Angeles and London. Read more...
Photo: The L.A. revival of “The Normal Heart,” a theater production about the onset of AIDS in the 1980s, features UCLA alumnus Verton R. Banks as the hospital administrator, Tommy Boatwright.
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. When UCLA alumni Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser first met as graduate students on Professor Duane Dell’Amico’s web series, they had no idea what they were doing. Read more...
Photo: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumni Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser set out to create a horror comedy film titled “Ghost Team One,” which combines the duo’s love of comedy with their intrigue in horror.
