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I'm a UCLA grad but I've got to hand it to USC (my wife's alma mater) -- they throw a wide party net when it comes to their alumni-sponsored Rival Week Activities before and during this Saturday afternoon's Big Game. In Manhattan, for example, the USC Alumni Club of New York takes over a Murray Hi ... More >>
View more photos in the Sparks slideshow. All photos by Timothy Norris Sparks at UCLA Royce Hall, Sat., Feb. 14 To borrow the title from Sparks' 2000 album, it took balls for Ron and Russell Mael to stage their 21-night residency in London last summer, performing the entirety of each of their 21 a ... More >>
L.A. Observed and others have noted that today UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper ran a front-page wrap-around ad for Haagen-Dazs ice cream. An editor's note by Anthony Pesce, linked to by LAist, admitted that the ad was contrived to make it appear as editorial copy. Forget ad reps -- at this point in pri ... More >>
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[Friday Update: Today's Al Tompkins Poynter column continues the discussion.]Critics continue to pile onto the decision, by UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper, to run a front-page wrap ad on its Tuesday edition. This kind of ad, which duplicates the look of a paper's true front page that appears after the ... More >>
Barack Obama at Gibson Amphitheater Tool at Nokia Theatre. By Ryan Colditz I saw a show no one else will ever see. Senator Barack Obama opening for Tool. Barack Obama made a visit to Universal Amphitheater Monday night, greeted by a largely young crowd, rowdy and anxious to see the man who has pl ... More >>
Greg Nelson seeks historic status for Washington, Strode and Harding
After seven brief seasons of existence, UCLA's Undie Run, a nocturnal event in which students run through Westwood streets and onto campus in their underwear on Wednesdays of finals weeks, will be no more. Thank university administrators, who pulled the plug on the storied event a few days ago, prob ... More >>
L.A., world movie capital, may indeed suffer from having too much of a good thing
KTLAUCLA often spins itself as the smarter, higher-GPA-having school in town, but by the looks of its Bruin bear sculpture, you'd have to chalk one up for the wit and fortitude of USC: Despite an annual student "security force" that's supposed to protect the bear and despite a tarp covering t ... More >>
The strangest thing about Goal, LA's newest upscale sports bar, isn't what's there. It's what's missing. Recently soft-opened on a stretch of W. 3rd St. known more for chic cafes and fine dining, Goal offers the de rigueur décor of a sports bar: dark wood, leather booths, plenty of flatscreen plasm ... More >>
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UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper made the Princeton Review's list of top 20 college newspapers, according to the journalism blog Romenesko. The publication came in at number 13, behind the University of Texas (12) and West Virginia University. Number one? That would be Yale Daily News.
It looks like "spice," the legal, marijuana-like substance that has sparked controversy across the nation, is making inroads in Los Angeles. The UCLA Daily Bruin reports that the product, sold under names such as K2 and Black Mamba, is available in Westwood Village and that, so far, the local ... More >>
USC beat crosstown rival UCLA this week, and it wasn't, as usual, on the football field. No, surprisingly, the win is in the academic arena, as USC outranked UCLA in U.S. News & World Report's annual national college rankings. The Trojans ended up one step above the Bruins at 23 to 25 (there ... More >>
Bill Clinton is at UCLA tonight.Those dueling visits by presidents Obama and Clinton we told you about have turned into another classic bout between archrivals USC and UCLA, and we have to ask: Which school is getting the better speaker? Obama is heading to USC next Friday (Oct. 22) to speak ... More >>
To save California's global-warming law, a 23-year-old finds his rage and 60,000 friends
Yet another reason to attend UCLA. There's the education, the Bruins, and now an imprimatur from peta2, which just crowned the school the Most Vegan-Friendly College in America. UCLA defeated 31 other schools from across the country in the large-school category in what peta2, the youth version of ... More >>
Daily BruinAll your fountain are belong to US(C).It's that time of year when your friends at UCLA and USC go at it in anticipation of the annual football match between the crosstown foes that has become of the country's greatest sports rivalries. It looks like the spoiled children of USC str ... More >>
halloweenbearcostume.comRawwwr! I stab you in face and eat your team for lunch!Hey kids! Did you know that UCLA is one of the top public universities in the country, with stellar undergraduate opportunities in the social sciences and a prestigious faculty that includes three professors electe ... More >>
A. Scattergoodchef Rodelio Aglibot at GO Burger As this town's burger addicts are well-aware, GO Burger recently opened in Hollywood, dangerously near The Hungry Cat and the home of the Pug Burger. The man flipping burgers (actually sometimes, conceptually a lot more often) at GO Burger is n ... More >>
YouTubeOvernight celebrity Alexandra Wallace, pretending to be an Asian student on his cell phoneUpdate: Death threats, poli-sci finals and the First Amendment. Updated after the jump with the university's response. Plus: UCLA Chancellor Gene Block makes a video of his own, and bikini pics o ... More >>
Trojans vs. Bruins, for the snitch! (Really though.)Updated after the jump: USC's quidditch captain tells us his team has fewer players than UCLA (shocker), so their chances are slim. He also shares with us the plight of the HUMAN SNITCH. This just keeps getting better. Holy nerdball. We've ... More >>
professorbainbridge.comStephen Bainbridge said what?Well-regarded UCLA law Professor Stephen Bainbridge was under fire this week after he wrote on his blog about a bad experience with FedEx customer service. The comments were called out by some on campus as "insensitive," according to the UC ... More >>
John Martinez PavligaWoot-woot: USC slaps UCLA, again.USC Trojans. With a name like that, it figures that the young men and woman of Troy are claiming yet another victory over crosstown rival UCLA. Yep, Trojans have more sex than Bruins. Duh. Trojans were practically made for sex. That USC ... More >>
USCTrojans = The Chosen Ones.Wait -- did the Dalai Lama just choose sides in the epic UCLA vs. USC rivalry? As if Los Angeles' two biggest institutions of higher education didn't have enough to fight over -- Bruins fans vs. Trojans fans, Alexandra Wallace vs. Kappa Sigma bro, seeker vs. snitc ... More >>
veteranstoday.com"Locked Out of West LA VA"You can often hear West L.A. residents, and those on the nearby Santa Monica border, whining about the rampant homeless-veteran population in their area (which is trying desperately to gentrify -- to polish itself into the next Brentwood or Beverly H ... More >>
Adam TinworthShop for America.Things were looking up there for a second, right? Unemployment was creeping down, people were starting buy houses again, you got the new iPhone. And then, boom: Housing prices went toilet-bound again, unemployment barely budged, and the stock market is experie ... More >>
It's bad enough for us Bruins to have to endure the constant beat downs by USC in football (even when team's not even post-season eligible). But these U.S. News & World Report rankings are too much. Once again USC has edged out UCLA in its list of top-flight national universities, with the ... More >>
Moshe Kai Cavelin via FacebookAutobiography of a kid genius.Is there nothing 13-year-old Moshe Kai Cavelin can't do? Kid graduated from East Los Angeles Community College in astrophysics with a 4.0 last year, at which point he transfered to UCLA for math. (His LinkedIn profile lists his expe ... More >>
Sam TTraditional on-campus roomy situations at UCLA almost always involve boys living with boys and girls living with girls. But what if you're a boy who looks like a girl and is in the process of becoming a girl? Could you still live with a girl? That's a possibility because ...
FacebookGlen Parrish.Updated at the bottom: The teen's dad says there were "a lot" of drugs at the location. First posted at 7 a.m. An 18-year-old was found dead at a UCLA fraternity house over the weekend, authorities said. The body of Glen Parrish was found in a bed at the Theta Chi frate ... More >>
Timothy NorrisSee also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>
Don't even think about it.A strict new "no smoking" policy for the University of California will ban the use, sale or advertisement of any tobacco product anywhere on campus. Pretty extreme, but to be expected -- because, unlike keeping tuition affordable for students, UC leaders have always ... More >>
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