To Broadway director Richard Jay-Alexander, Grace Wall’s audition for “Guys and Dolls” was legendary.

On Jan. 1, 2008, Azature Pogosian found himself stranded after missing a flight home from celebrating the New Year in Las Vegas.

As the countdown to Spring Sing 2009 fast approaches its end, talk and anticipation about this year’s lineup of student talents and celebrity judges is once more stirring.

It is undeniable that the transition to college, especially UCLA, is an exhilarating if not sometimes overwhelming experience.

When envisioning the “Beat Generation” of the early 1950s, what likely comes to mind are turtlenecks and sunglasses, poetry and bongos, and the origins of funk and jazz ““ a quirky era that preceded and naturally melded into the grander spectrum of movements that spanned the ’60s.