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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Ceiling Fan Sculptures

This week, a painter takes on the weirdness of Bakersfield, an artist sends pictures made to last billions of years into orbit and an artist's biographer talks about why her subject is still being censored two decades after his death. 5. Whited-out activism The prints from Juan Capistran's new sho ... More >>

UCLA Business School Wants to Privatize, Forgo Tax Dollars

As the UC and Cal State systems struggle with budget cuts and increasingly unhappy and unruly student bodies, one UCLA school is bucking the trend and actually inviting more cuts. In fact, UCLA's Anderson School of Management wants zero tax dollars: It's asking to be cut off from the system almost ... More >>

Free Scholarships For 40 USC Students Thanks to $3.8 Million Gift

John Martinez Pavliga​UC and Cal State students are rightly pissed off at their schools' incredible increases in tuition and fees and the virtual destruction of what was once the world's finest public university system. At UCLA tuition has nearly tripled in 10 years. No wonder many have joine ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa's $30,000 a Day Trip to Asia: Another Empty Gesture as 13 Percent Jobless Rate Grips Los Angeles

KCETAntonio Villaraigosa with other people's money.​Thankfully, we have CitywatchLA explaining how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spends bundles of cash on pointless gestures. His trip to Asia, which will have zero effect on the Los Angeles economy, is burning $30,000 a day. Villaraigosa says he' ... More >>

Los Angeles Limerick Fest at Altadena Ale House: Sex and Sheep, Dick Jokes and the Man from Nantucket

Paul T. Bradley100.3's Mimi Chen reads some raunchy internet submissions​ "Ok, now here are some X-Rated ones," says a kindly, professorial elderly gentleman in a fishing cap before he belts out a few stanzas of offensive rhyming verse about a couple's sexual proclivities. A woman entering the ... More >>

CSU Students to See 12% Tuition Hike for Fall

Associated PressState students wait for the verdict.​Update: Fat tution hike, approved. Students, screwed. (Except for those in-staters whose families make under $70,000 per year. They're covered.) So much for the all-day efforts of young protesters outside the Board of Trustees meeting... Ori ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Big Bands Blowin'

Victor Lissabet and David Jurs: Everybody Sing Now!

Pissed-Off CSU Fullerton Students Sleep Over at Langsdorf Hall After University President Refuses to Sign 'Sacred Trust' Declaration

Shakin' things up at CSUF​Update: After three nights of back cramps, the students released a joint "Statement in Defense of Public Education" with President Gordon this afternoon. The difference, according to the Times: It "does not outline any policy initiatives or make any promises regarding ... More >>

UCLA Report: Cal State Northridge Students Out There Stressin', Strugglin'

California State University NorthridgeCSUN brochure models appear not to have partaken in survey​It's apparently big news this morning that 2,000 surveyed students at California State University Northridge are not cool with their tuition rising while their financial aid does not. They are in ... More >>

California DREAM Act Proposed (Again) By L.A. State Assemblyman Gil Cedillo: Taxypayer-Funded Student Aid For ... Illegals?

​The national DREAM Act, which would have created a path to permanent residency in the United State for some illegal immigrant college students, might have died in Congress last month. But L.A. state Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, an L.A. Democrat, is reviving his own version of the California DREA ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rock With You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

State Students Will Likely Find Little Relief From Fee Hikes, Despite Jerry Brown Taking the Governor's Seat

Brown said he won't fight fee hikes his first year as governor​ Cal State University students will have to fork over more money for school fees after trustees voted to increase tuition by another 15.5 percent, the fourth fee hike in three years. Trustees on the board's finance committee vote ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Far East, Far Out

Brick's Picks: Angel City Jazz

Cal Poly Pomona Recieves Largest Monetary Gift In The History Of California State University System

Flickr via claimsmantooCal Poly Pomona​The W.K. Kellogg Foundation made the largest donation in the history of the California State University system Monday, awarding Cal Poly Pomona $42 million to increase access to education opportunities. "In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the bi ... More >>

AGATHA CHRISTIE, EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Are Latinos Disappointed With Obama?

State Sen. Gil Cedillo.​Los Angeles-based state Sen. Gil Cedillo, one of President Obama's early campaign supporters, says he's disappointed with president so far, and that he's not alone among Latinos. Cedillo says there are some hard feelings surrounding Obama's promise during his presiden ... More >>

Big Rally Planned Over UC Fee Hikes, Higher Education Funding

UCLA.​Opponents of recent higher education budget cuts that have caused extreme student fee hikes at UCLA and other University of California campuses are planning a major demonstration in Sacramento next month. The University of California Student Association will hold a rally at the state ca ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Thelonious Assault

El Sereno's Xocolatl Coffeehouse Has Grand Opening: Coffee, Cacao, Art 5 Bands

Xocolatl Cacao, Tea and Coffeehouse in El Sereno, which had a soft opening about a month ago, will have its grand opening this Saturday morning, December 12th, at 10 a.m. The coffeehouse is a project of the Semillas Community Schools, an 8 year-old charter school right across the street from the sho ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Worth the Price of Admission

Boise Good Dancer

Brick's Picks: LA Jazz Collective's Fall Festival, Saxophone Summit 2008

The (Yes, It's Arrived) Latino Factor: Latinos Choose Hillary...

... bum out Obama, and give a little nod to McCain

Gallery Listings

For the week of November 9 - 15

The Mambo Princes

The Big 3 Palladium Orchestra and other picks

Mabou Mines Dollhouse and Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Sandra Tsing Loh's Sugar Plum Fairy, Sister Act and Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants

People Who Need People

What to do in LA this week

Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet

Girl Ghosts, Dead Valentino and Hell on a Cruise Ship

Chambers of the Heart

Waves of Sympathy

Church and State

Ring in the old, ring in the new

Ranking the Museums

The Sound of the City

Edited by Kateri Butler

A War of Their Own

Community-college students take complaints of budget cuts to the streets

Tough Roe to Hoe

Who will fight the next battle for choice?

Merging Artists

75 years of California highways and byways

10 Reasons A Beautiful Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Waste $8 On

I See Lowbrow People

SHAG and Mark Ryden included. Plus, Terry Schoonhoven and Burnett Miller, RIP

It’s Weird Out There

Politicians provide comic relief from election madness

Size Matters

Former Governor Pete Wilson said that reducing class size would be good for kids. He should have said it would be good for affluent kids.

Nuncomformist

Sister Corita Kent's Pop subversions

Long Reach

Wholly L.A.

Desegregating our diverse houses of worship

Fast Track

I got railroaded and now I’m hooked