There once was a time when dorms didn’t exist, and John Wooden coached an unknown team in the men’s gymnasium.
Author Archives: Samantha Suchland
Daniel Johnson
J. Daniel Johnson knew he was going to UCLA when he was 12 years old.
Venice surfboard shaper Scott Anderson brings his hand-crafted artwork to UCLA Hammer Museum's 'The Art of Surfboard Shaping'
Scott Anderson handcrafts his surfboards one by one in a workshop tucked away in an industrial district of Marina del Rey.
Movie Review: “The Other Guys”
New York City’s testosterone-charged detective team Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and P. K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) takes car chases and excessive property damage to a whole other level. Especially when you realize it’s all in pursuit of a single ounce of marijuana.
Screen Scene: “Looking for Eric”
When a movie opens with a strong, stand-alone line, it becomes sort of like the film’s thesis. A line like this establishes the essence of a film before we know anything about it. In “Slumdog Millionaire” we had “It is written,” followed by Jamal Malik fulfilling his destiny.
Conversation with Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot is returning to the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for the first time since the release of “The Princess Diaries” and just in time for the festival’s first ever Young Adult Stage.
John Bailey appointed the Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence
Students fill the spaces between stage walls, dated sofas and a fake fireplace of the set built on Sound Stage 3 of Melnitz Hall.