Her smooth, soulful voice and smoldering stare has been unmistakable since her very successful debut album “Songs in A Minor” in 2001.

It has only been three weeks since school started, and I can officially say that I am a broke college kid.

With the presidential and congressional elections quickly approaching, many voters are scrambling to inform themselves about the candidates and their policies.

After 40 years of struggling with budget cuts, funding deficiencies and economic crises, the Academic Advancement Program at UCLA is still standing.

Wisława Szymborska was always a modest woman. Even after winning the Nobel Prize for her poetry in 1996, she lived in a small flat in a town square in Krakow, Poland, hiding away among the ordinary townspeople. Her poetry, however, has nothing to hide.

Since the explosion of music-themed shows like “Glee” and “Smash,” a cappella has been thrust into the spotlight and portrayed as an overly competitive and demanding activity.

It isn’t often that UCLA students get to share the stage with their professors here at UCLA. But when Alicia Mastromonaco was suddenly asked to step in for her professor, who had to tour with the San Francisco Symphony, she jumped at the opportunity to perform with her mentors.

David Kitz always knew he would be in a band. But he never thought he would end up with indie pop group Princeton, especially after the UCLA alumnus played in a hard-core band at Santa Monica High School.

Few have heard the music of Austrian composer Eric Zeisl. Many have probably never heard the name before. Zeisl had been sucked into the unknown and was neglected for more than 50 years because many of his compositions were never published or recorded.

Those passing by Schoenberg Hall on Friday morning probably found it difficult to not stop and listen to the fluttering tunes trickling out of its large wooden doors.