Giselle Maund

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• Parking lot performances

  May 31, 2007 at 12:43 a.m.

  A walk around campus at night often leads to unexpected encounters with dance groups. Here's a rundown of some you might see the next time you're out and about.

• Designing in a digital age

  May 29, 2007 at 12:30 a.m.

  Their official name is Design | Media Arts. But “Desma,” the affectionate abbreviation tossed around for the department in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, seems much more fitting when one observes its students’ casually creative, communal vibe.

• Weekend Review: "No Strings"

  May 14, 2007 at 12:17 a.m.

  Appearing atop a short set of stairs front and center on the Freud Playhouse’s stage, Barbara (Sophina Brown) opens “No Strings” with the haunting song, “The Sweetest Sounds.” She is tall and delicate, standing in front of the live band and to the side of a gauzy Eiffel Tower.

• Culinary Connoisseur: Novel Cafe

  April 26, 2007 at midnight

  Everyone knows you can judge a book by its cover, but they never said anything about the outside of a restaurant.

• T.C. Boyle to share two short stories

  April 24, 2007 at 12:32 a.m.

  Internationally renowned author T.C. Boyle – that’s Thomas Coraghessan, for those who don’t know – kindly says it’s an accident that he wound up as a professor at USC instead of UCLA, since USC was the first university that offered him a job after he completed his graduate program in Iowa.

• Experiencing the art of volunteering

  April 5, 2007 at 12:37 a.m.

  When Shannon Safino, a volunteer at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, showed up at an exclusive opening of the museum’s “Architecture of the Veil” exhibit in January, she thought she ...

• Comedy series puts students on stage with the pros

  Feb. 28, 2007 at 1:03 a.m.

  Comedy might be the most extreme form of art. Being funny on a stage for a specified amount of time is daring enough, but bursting into the industry is akin ...

• Event fuses Russian classical music with diverse art forms

  Jan. 31, 2007 at midnight

  What’s fresher than the latest club banger from Akon or Jay-Z? Think back to Russia around World War I, when composers Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky became greats because of ...

• More to Tango

  Jan. 23, 2007 at midnight

  It takes two to tango – or so the American proverb goes. But members of the Tango Club at UCLA would likely insist that the Argentine tango requires and incites ...

• Making art from illness

  Jan. 8, 2007 at midnight

  HIV/AIDS is a global tragedy so devastating that it seems as though beauty would be scarce in any artistic depiction of the pandemic. But the glittering lights of awareness, activism, ...