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UCLA is struggling days after playing one of their best games of the year against Kansas.

PASADENA “”mdash; A lot has happened to the UCLA football team in the last year, but when it came down to its annual rivalry game with USC, it seems like nothing has changed.

Don’t start studying for finals just yet, folks. This one’s still worth watching.

Though both the UCLA and USC football programs have seen greener pastures, the first half of the school’s annual rivalry game kept the adrenaline running for supporters of both sides.

Tyler Honeycutt did everything he could to steal a win for UCLA in a hostile environment. But try as he might, Honeycutt couldn’t prevent a referee’s whistle from denying UCLA the chance at a shocking upset on the road.

The modern hip-hop/rap scene has never been appealing to me. I am a person who scoffs at Top 40 songs and gets extremely angry with my friends if they dare profane my ears with the likes of Lil Wayne or Flo Rida. If you ask me why I have such disdain for the music, my argument is always the same: It is my opinion that the modern-day hip-hop and rap I hear on the radio is completely devoid of meaning and passion.

So it was mixed feelings that I stood in line Monday night to see Immortal Technique. I was introduced to his unrelenting brand of underground political hip-hop by a friend of mine who thought I would enjoy his work. I listened to one of his songs and deemed it bearable, so when I heard he was performing at UCLA for a benefit show to help build hospitals for children in Gaza, I thought it would be a fun experience for my first hip-hop concert. By the end of the night, Immortal Technique, along with fellow artists Akir and Chino XL, had restored my faith in hip-hop.

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For lovers of your traditional animated film, Disney released last week its latest princess tale, “Tangled,” the story of Rapunzel with songs. For something entirely different, there is always “The Triplets of Belleville,” the 2003 animated movie written and directed by the French filmmaker Sylvain Chomet. Instead of a young girl escaping her evil stepmother, the story follows an elderly woman named Madame Souza who goes on quite the adventure when her cyclist grandson Champion is kidnapped by two French gangsters and made to race on a stationary bike for their gambling pleasure. The look is surreal and heavily stylistic, with very little dialogue. There is music, but of a distinctly European kind; when Madame Souza encounters the titular singing sisters, they improvise a jazzy number using a refrigerator, newspaper, vacuum and bicycle wheel as instruments. “The Triplets of Belleville” earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature, despite a less-than-favorable representation of the United States ““ Belleville, where the gangsters run their empire, is clearly meant to be New York City. It might have won, too, for all its creativity and depth, had it not been up against “Finding Nemo.” “The Triplets of Bellevue” plays this Friday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.

MANHATTAN, N.Y. “”mdash; The Bruins didn’t come away from the NIT Season Tip-Off with any victories, but luckily Bruin Sights was there to come away with a healthy chunk of knowledge about the UCLA men’s basketball team.