Receive Weekly Email and Text Message Updates:
Sign up for latest info on concerts, dining, promotions and more!
Go!

Subject: University of California-Los Angeles

  • Unusual Suspects: Linda Ronstadt, Eugene Volokh and More

    This Date in PhotographsHere's looking at how some Angelenos looked, on a December 15th. All images from L.A. Times via UCLA Digital Archive.Linda Ronstadt kicks back in 1974, the year her Heart Like a Wheel album went multi-platinum.

    December 15, 2008
  • Letters: Of Humane Bondage

    Our readers write

    September 27, 2007
  • Still Lives

    New Chinese Cinema at UCLA and REDCAT

    October 4, 2007
  • Today in Photographs: December 31, 1940

    Happy New Year!Downtown revelers celebrate New Year's Eve on Broadway.Photo: Daily News/UCLA Digital Collection 

    December 31, 2008
  • Today in Photographs: January 18, 1972

    Senior citizens watch "Love Dance" at the Classic Cat burlesque club.Photo: LA Times/UCLA Digital Collection

    January 18, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: January 20, 1969

    Members of Los Angeles' Black Panther Party hold a press conference. (And no, that isn't Spike Lee on the right.)Photo: LA Times/UCLA Digital Collection

    January 20, 2009
  • UCLA's Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective Enters Final Week

    April 24, 2008
  • Today in Photographs: January 31, 1964

    Busted! Two San Bernardino members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club await booking after narcotics arrests in Los Angeles. Photo:LA Times/UCLA Digital Collection

    January 31, 2009
  • Culturally Unique: Actors' Equity Goes Soviet on UCLA Live

    Plus, the Civilians' This Beautiful City reviewed

    October 9, 2008
  • Brick's Picks: Blue Note Specials

    What not to miss this week

    October 23, 2008
  • Lonely Songs and Still Lives at UCLA’s Celebration of Iranian Cinema

    Far away, so close

    January 29, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: February 20, 1947

    Remains of the Day: Residents and workers mill around the O'Connor Electro-Plating Corporation at 926 E. Pico Boulevard. Meanwhile, rescue crews comb the wreckage of the city's worst industrial accident, which claimed 17 lives and injured 150. Photos: L.A. Daily News & L.A. Times/UCLA Collection

    February 20, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: March 22, 1937

    Masses Transit:  Hundreds crowd in front of City Hall to get a glimpse of the city's new streetcars at a Transportation Week celebration.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

    March 22, 2009
  • Bruin Ruin? UCLA's Newspaper Faces "Grim" Future

    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 print journalism most newspaper editors, would be on their knees thanking heaven for their good fortune, but the Bruin editorial staff apologized for the ad, calling it "distasteful," "dishonest," "uneth

    April 7, 2009
  • UCLA Profs and Scientists Sued Animal-Rights Radicals. Now They're Breathing Slightly Easier

    A small win against extremism

    August 28, 2008
  • Look Back in Angst

    British film series has a bit of everything, including the kitchen-sink dramas of Douglas and Davies

    July 24, 2008
  • Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film

    Monthlong UCLA series looks at the lives of Muslims worldwide

    May 8, 2008
  • Murder and Madness in Racy Pre-Code Hollywood

    Getting away with it on film

    January 31, 2008
  • GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

    Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

    April 16, 2009
  • Let It Snow

    Clown Slava Polunin’s very Russian carnival

    December 21, 2006
  • Kids in the Hall

    December 7, 2006
  • Crosstown Rivals

    When USC and UCLA put on their academic game faces, nothing less than the future of the city is at stake

    November 30, 2006
  • Welcome to The Dungeon

    Basted days and nights in a 20th-century dormitory basement

    November 30, 2006
  • Best Way to Spy on the Old Neighborhood (As Long as You’ve Got a Wad of Cash)

    October 5, 2006
  • The Peony Pavilion

    September 28, 2006
  • Afterschool Art

    L.A. Weekly’s Annual Biennial

    September 7, 2006
  • Education Supplement Page 7

    August 17, 2006
  • Education Supplement Page 14

    August 17, 2006
  • Education Supplement Page 4

    August 17, 2006
  • Education Supplement Page 9

    August 17, 2006
  • Education Supplement Page 10

    August 17, 2006
  • Education Supplement Page 1

    August 17, 2006
  • Today in Photographs: May 9, 1966

    Comedian Phyllis Diller wins frat house mom honors from UCLA's Alpha Epsilon Pi.LA Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

    May 9, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: May 16, 1986

    The L.A. Lakers' James Worthy leaps for a basket against Houston Rockets as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, right, looks on. (LA Times/UCLA)

    May 16, 2009
  • Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Sayre Fire came back to them Monday. L.A. Daily NewsBoater Missing Off Catalina The Coast Guard is searching the waters off Santa Catalina Island for Lawrence Nash of Redondo Beach. Nash's 12-foot skiff

    May 5, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: July 2, 1970

    Just Kickin' It. Young Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson studies the team's playbook in his favorite room of his Bel-Air home.LA Times/UCLA

    July 2, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: July 3, 1959

    Original caption about a cat that served aboard a World War II attack transport: "Pooli, who rates three service ribbons and four battle stars, shows she can still get into her old uniform as she prepares to celebrate her 15th birthday."LA Times/UCLA

    July 3, 2009
  • UCLA Officials: Undie Run Is Finished

    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, probably because they couldn't figure a way to make money off it.A story in the school's Daily Bruin reports that "Administrators have threatened to cancel the ritual for years now because of an increased

    July 31, 2009
  • Cuts Threaten UCLA Arts Library

    According to LAist, another library may bite the dust soon, thanks to state  budget cuts. This one is no local outpost of the LAPL, however, but UCLA's wonderful Arts Library, located on North Campus.  A tipster alerted writer Zach Behrens to both the planned closure and a petition drive that is being waged to keep the library open."UCLA Library Management," the petition begins, "behind closed doors and without consultation with the UCLA community has decided to close its Arts Library,

    August 20, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: August 24, 1965

    ​Police roust members of the Congress of Racial Equality at City Hall protest in the aftermath of the Watts Riots .LA Times/UCLA

    August 24, 2009
  • Mount Wilson Communications Towers Threatened

    UCLA Dept of Physics & AstronomyThe View at 6:02 p.m.​For the past few days the Mount Wilson Towercam, maintained by UCLA's Physics and Astronomy Department, has unblinkingly captured the fierce progress of the Station Fire along Angeles Crest Highway. Now news sources including City News Service and the L.A. Times report that the observatory complex and the communications aerials that serve every L.A. television station are threatened by the topping flames.City News Service (a subscriptio

    August 30, 2009
  • Today in Photographs: September 3, 1947

    ​Union shoulder-pad makers picket a store whose manager draws boundary line to keep them out during a strike.LA Times/UCLA

    September 3, 2009
  • Mt. Wilson Observatory Saved, Thanks to Firefighters: An Appreciation

    UCLA​The 105-year-old Mount Wilson Observatory, which today was called "the birthplace of the expanding Universe" by Discover Magazine online, seemed on the verge of destruction just three days ago, evacuated of all personnel on Monday and surrounded by 25 firefighters who then had to flee as flames edged toward the august facility. On Tuesday afternoon, a massive drop of fire retardant by a Super Scooper and tanker helicopters laid a protective moat around the threatened  buildings as w

    September 3, 2009
  • Mount Wilson's Towercam Shows Lingering Smoke

    UCLA​Back online after backfire activity temporarily cut its connection to a nearby Internet server, Mount Wilson's Towercam surveys the surrounding San Gabriel Mountains, revealing, happily, blue sky -- something that had been ominously missing a week ago. Lingering trails of smoke serve as reminders of the Station Fire, an arson-set blaze that took two lives and burned more than 160,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest to earn infamy as the county's biggest wildfire. It is expected to be

    September 10, 2009
  • Insured Workers Still Often Split the Bill

    Sometimes lost in the debate about health care, public option or not, is the sad fact that even people with decent insurance end up going into debt to pay for procedures that aren't covered. A recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found that 2.2 million Californians -- more than half the population of the city of Los Angeles -- are in debt as a result of medical bills not covered by their insurance. One in seven senior citizens in the Golden State have medical-bill red ink despit

    September 11, 2009
  • Annette Bening as Medea at UCLA

    October 1, 2009
  • In the Land Where Theater Is Hip

    October 22, 2009
  • Tuition At UC Schools Could Top $10,000 A Year

    Stuck with a $535 million gap in their budget, a University of California Board of Regents committee met at UCLA Wednesday and approved a plan that would raise annual undergraduate tuition fees above the $10,000 mark.UCLA​ The proposal that would see annual undergraduate costs reach $11,302, including campus-by-campus student-union fees and other charges, represents a near tripling of what UCLA students paid ten years ago.

    November 18, 2009
  • Students Stage Sit-In At UCLA

    A group of students at UCLA Thursday morning took over Campbell Hall to protest UC Board of Regents' likely approval of a 32 percent tuition hike that would put undergraduate costs to attend classes at the public campus above $10,000 annually.UCLACampbell Hall.​ A UCLA spokesman said "no action is being taken" against the group, which used chains and bicycle locks to barricade itself inside the building. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said classes at Campbell Hall have been canceled, and he u

    November 19, 2009
  • UC Tuition Hits The Roof: 10k A Year Would Buy A Lot Of Beer

    This guy.​The University of California Board of Regents on Thursday bit the bullet and approved a 32 percent increase in tuition that will see a two-phase, $2,500 price hike that will put the public system's undergraduate education costs at more than 10,000 a year and triple tuition and fees for UCLA students compared to ten years ago. Protests are happening at UCLA, where a group of students has taken over Campbell Hall. But the regents were stuck with a $535 million deficit that Governo

    November 19, 2009