Author Archives: Ruiling Erica Zhang

The organizers behind this year’s Ray Bolger Musical Theater production from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television refuse to let the recession put a damper on the perfectly sunny, breezy remaining days of the school year.

Much ingrained in popular culture from TV commercials to the movie “White Chicks,” Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto “The Four Seasons” has become a trying cliche in the minds of many.

Sunshine, the beach, the palms and ““ of course ““ what first comes to the minds of many when they think of Los Angeles is the city’s rich offerings in art and culture.

Every now and then a routine trip to the mall will yield a most extraordinary find. Sometimes, that find is so out-of-the-ordinary, you can’t even carry it in a shopping bag.

Change. As America prepares for its arrival next Tuesday when the very man who coined the term takes the Oval Office, it seems there is no better time than now to witness the change Iraq has already experienced over the past few decades.

While the majority of the UCLA student body is sitting and digesting the last remnants of Thanksgiving dinner before returning to class come Monday, 15 UCLA student artists will be hard at work, under pressure to create a unique performance and art show based on a theme given to them just 48 hours prior to curtain time.

A Chinese American teenager comes of age in 1986, a cast of men in drag takes center stage, and you (yes, you) can play a lead role.