It's a little surprising to when nerd-on-nerd drama becomes a fascinating introspective into love and loneliness in modern-day life. Read more...

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Creating a video of people playing a piano with another person's head is a far cry from UCLA alumnus Tejpal Ajji's original intention of becoming an ancient Greek art historian. When he was a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Ajji started making videos in a sculpture class and got hooked on video making. Read more...

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Exhibit creator Tejpal Ajji said that in choosing locations for his videos, he went with places that stood out in his memory.

Raised in a bicultural household with a Venezuelan physician as a father who brought pictures of dead bodies found in swamps to the dinner table and a mother who got her master's degree in statistics, Christine Suarez pursued an unanticipated career. Read more...

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UCLA alumna Christine Suarez created her own theater production “Mother.Fucker.” in which she evaluates her role as both a mother and a dancer.
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[email protected] Wilco and Schubert isn't a combination that comes to mind when considering an orchestral performance, but for the experimental and classical music ensemble wild Up, this is nothing out of the ordinary. Founded by conductor Chris Rountree, wild Up is essentially one of the Hammer Museum's most recent installations. Read more...

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Vicious, man-eating and disease-carrying rats infest the city of Dunwall, where steampunk meets supernatural in Arkane Studios' new first-person stealth title "Dishonored." Aesthetically similar to industrial 19th century Britain, "Dishonored" puts players in control of Corvo Attano, Dunwall's royal protector and the Empress' personal bodyguard. Read more...

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If there's one thing to put on a Los Angeles bucket list, watching a live theater performance can definitely add a bit of refinement to the typical prerequisites of going to Diddy Riese and watching a football game. Read more...

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“Build” will play at the Geffen Playhouse.

Whether or not theatergoers who come to see "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" at the Geffen Playhouse are knowledgeable about the history of African-American actresses in Hollywood, chances are by the time the curtains close they will not only have gained interest in the topic, but also feel a desire to be friends with the fictional subject of the play. Read more...

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The West coast premiere of Lynn Nottage’s “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” took place at the Geffen Playhouse on Wednesday. Daily Bruin file photo