Author Archives: Nick Rabinowitsh

What happens when you take improv experts from UCLA and elsewhere, put them in baseball jerseys, separate them into teams, and warn them that if they curse or use obscenities they will have a paper bag put over their heads? They get funny. Case-in-point: ComedySportz, an improv show in Hollywood, bases its format on a […]

When America’s comedy becomes too homogenous, it’s time to bring in a specialized international task force to overhaul the situation. The self-proclaimed Ambassadors of Comedy, consisting of comedians from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Iran, the Virgin Islands and the Phillipines, will convene at the Cooperage tonight from 7-9 p.m. to bring a world of humor to UCLA. […]

For once, spilt milk is a good thing. A new student-founded and student-run literary magazine called “Spilt,” named for the overturned beverage, will soon be hitting the racks of newsstands and bookstores in Los Angeles, San Diego and Berkeley. When speaking of the magazine’s logo of an overturned milk bottle, Christina Han, the magazine’s founder, […]

Second-year Will Froelich has no idea what the Fowler Museum of Cultural History is. Peter Young doesn’t know that the museum is free to UCLA students. In fact, a surprising amount of UCLA students go through four, five, or more years at UCLA either completely oblivious or not caring about the goings-on at a museum […]

Never overlook a janitor as a prodigy. Before you start getting images of Will Hunting secretly scrawling answers to advanced fourier systems across a dimly-lit chalkboard, it should be said that janitors can make great poets, too. John Cross, a 2002 UCLA alumnus, has won several awards in the past few years, including the 2002 […]