To put it plainly, it is impossible to capture the entire breadth of the Hammer Museum’s fifth biannual exhibit “Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.” in an 800-word article.

If you have ever wanted to be buried in a book, now may be your chance.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan’s play “By the Waters of Babylon” takes the audience on a rollercoaster ride through a day in the life of an Texan widow, her day worker gardener, and their attempted romance.

For UCLA students, Halloween usually means one of three things: tracking down king-sized candy bars in Bel Air, braving the streets of the famed West Hollywood Carnaval Party, or wandering the hills of Westwood for a frat or apartment party.

In 1979, Guyana-born actress CCH Pounder stepped into an audition space in New York City with no movie experience and came face-to-face with legendary director and choreographer Bob Fosse.

Natural light streams through oversized windows and into the sixth floor space where several tables are all covered with scraps of magazines and painting supplies.

Author Salvador Plascencia’s first love wasn’t writing, it was basketball ““ that is, until he realized that being 5-foot-4-inches wouldn’t cut it.

The way we see it, summer is a time to explore.

Hemingway wrote about raucous bull runs in Pamplona. Fitzgerald wrote about glitzy New York. Steinbeck wrote about a Depression era Monterey.

If driving with the sleek, wireless motion-sensor wheel isn’t enough to get you hooked on Nintendo’s latest installment of “Mario Kart” for the Wii gaming console, racing neck-and-neck with Miss Piggy from Finland and Sr. Jesus from Japan should be.