Lauren Schick

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• Students to smash misconceptions about WAC

  Feb. 20, 2009 at 2:04 a.m.

  “Who here is involved in WAC Smash!?”

• Polishing hearts with dance

  Oct. 8, 2008 at 12:55 a.m.

  Banafsheh Sayyad knows what it means to follow your passion.

• Book Review: “Just Who Will You Be?”

  April 23, 2008 at 1:23 a.m.

  Maria Shriver seems to have everything figured out.

• Weekend Review: Complexions

  April 14, 2008 at 12:02 a.m.

  If it could ever be possible to call ballet “hip” in the 21st century, “Complexions” would be the show.

• Personal shopping tours uncover hidden deals

  April 3, 2008 at 1:43 a.m.

  There are only so many hours a shopper can spend scouring Third Street Promenade and Westwood Village.

• ‘Li’l Abner’ a blast from the past

  Feb. 5, 2008 at 12:03 a.m.

  When Daisy Mae chased after Li’l Abner on the first Sadie Hawkins Day, it was unlikely anyone expected young women to still recall the comic strip event more than 70 years later.

• Yearning for batter days

  Oct. 31, 2007 at 1:05 a.m.

  A hopscotch jump from Rodeo Drive, the young and posh wait 30 minutes to shell out $3.75 for a bite-sized childhood treat.

• "Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye"

  Oct. 24, 2007 at 12:03 a.m.

  It is unnerving to walk out of a museum exhibit feeling less knowledgeable and worldly than when you walked in. But that is surprisingly the effect after one hour in a gallery consisting of only 10 pictures.

• Two options for fresh produce

  Oct. 15, 2007 at midnight

  With the closure of the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market on Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue in 2006, farmers market frequenters were left wondering where to turn.

• Band seeks to mirror no one’s style but its own

  June 25, 2007 at 1:28 a.m.

  Most people would feel more comfortable on the window side of a one-way mirror. But the New York foursome Battles, playing at the Troubador Saturday, has decided to submit themselves to scrutinous interrogation in the music video of their first single, “Atlas” off their debut album “Mirrored,” which was released in May.