John Guigayoma

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• ‘Tree House’ balances individual lives with community

  Oct. 23, 2008 at 12:13 a.m.

  On Strathmore Drive and Gayley Avenue, there sits a giant mushroom garden.

• Forget cotton, paper is the fabric of our lives

  June 9, 2008 at 12:13 a.m.

  The night I left my magazine internship two summers ago, I rode the train home while my four editors drank from a keg.

• Ending at home

  June 4, 2008 at 1:45 a.m.

  The art program’s crop of seniors will finally have something to show the public when they graduate. The campus’s main gallery will house something new: their own artwork.

• Student parking poses problems

  May 13, 2008 at 2 a.m.

  As Westwood Village parking continues to frustrate many UCLA students, residents of a nearby neighborhood are rallying to end what they see as an increase in long-term student parking in their streets.

• Pediatrician fights for worldwide disarmament

  May 5, 2008 at 4:04 a.m.

  It has been 10 years since an elderly Japanese-American man sat in the back of David Yamamoto’s computer workshop.

• New authors test festival’s offerings

  April 25, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.

  For most emerging writers, it takes more than a good book, a tiny back-cover biography and a grinning mug shot to break out of anonymity.

• Cutting edge controversy

  March 3, 2008 at 12:13 a.m.

  When Kara Walker made her solo debut at the UCLA Hammer Museum in 1999, only a single room on the first floor housed her work.

• A fresh and candid voice

  Feb. 25, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

  A few days after Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005, a classroom of art students watched Tameka Norris sob over her painting.

• For artists, MySpace leads to gallery space

  Feb. 7, 2008 at 12:39 a.m.

  The tiny crowd at an East-L.A. mini-gallery wanted more, but William Deutsch didn’t have much else to give.

• Making it to the main stage

  Jan. 31, 2008 at 12:02 a.m.

  The Little Theater is Macgowan Hall’s main stage, and as far as playwrights go, it’s usually reserved for the big dogs. Canonical heavyweights like Shakespeare, Molière and Brecht have all graced the theater’s playbills in recent years. But with Friday’s debut of “A Small Pair of Feet in the Middle of the Sea” and “Random Acts,” graduate-written plays get a chance in the spotlight.