Festival enlivens old-world culture with educational, artistic shtick

While many may only associate Yiddish culture with short catchphrases such as “putz” and “chutzpah,” a weeklong event starting next Friday, “The Art of Yiddish ““ A Tour de Force,” hopes to shed more light on the often forgotten culture and its history. The California Institute for Yiddish Language and Culture returns to UCLA with […]

Media arts exhibits on display at Hammer Museum and on TV

As part of the biannual monthlong experimental media arts festival in Los Angeles this month, “TV or NOT TV” finally reaches Westwood, bringing the strange and the bizarre to the UCLA Hammer Museum and the EDA space in Suite 104 of the Kinross Building this weekend. The festival finishes its run in Westwood with a […]

UCLA student finds success with film project

It’s not often that film students get their “big breaks” immediately after college, but producer Lance Williams’ career as a professional filmmaker has taken off though he’s still a UCLA student. While Williams is still in his second year of graduate school, calling his most recent project just another student film would be an understatement. […]