English Professor Deborah Banner teaches a literature class
titled “Rocket’s Red Glare: 20th Century American War
narrative.” Her syllabus includes the tribal rock musical
“Hair.”
Daily Bruin: Why are people today still so wildly interested
in seeing “Hair”?

When the name of the rock-musical “Hair” comes up in
any ordinary context, your mind immediately deviates to an entire
cast of beautiful dancers ““ yes, stark naked, flag-burning
and tripping on acid.

Some people see a room as purely functional. Others see it as a
blank canvas. And no, this isn’t about interior designers,
but a few students in the UCLA art department.

If you’re Nigerian, you’re family. If you’re
not Nigerian, you can be family too.
This Saturday, a completely new way of celebrating Nigerian
culture is coming to UCLA: the Nigerian Student Association Culture
Show.

The Twentieth Century Limited, one of the fastest trains of the
1930s, could make the journey direct from Chicago to New York in 16
hours.
Unfortunately for passenger Oscar Jaffey, a once fantastic
theater director, this means that he has only 16 hours left to
regain his reign over Broadway in the Reprise!

Somewhere behind a dildo-obsessed vixen, a pair of secret
agents, a hairy pedophile, a 117-year-old evil billionaire, and a
narrator who’d rather be hitting the reefer, lies the crown
to the kingdom of Athenius.

Ah, the ’80s. When else could a straight man wear nothing
but a pink cowboy hat, matching boots and a strategically-placed
toilet plunger?
The real life story of the scantily clad 1980s rocker Buck Naked
of the band Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys will be brought to
the UCLA stage tonight in a staged reading of first-year UCLA
master of fine arts student Tony Moton’s original screenplay,
“Buck Naked.” The performance will be put on by Theater
Underground, a registered student organization sponsored by the
theater department to support and produce student theater on
campus.

What happens when you take improv experts from UCLA and
elsewhere, put them in baseball jerseys, separate them into teams,
and warn them that if they curse or use obscenities they will have
a paper bag put over their heads?

When America’s comedy becomes too homogenous, it’s
time to bring in a specialized international task force to overhaul
the situation.
The self-proclaimed Ambassadors of Comedy, consisting of
comedians from Vietnam, Bangladesh, Iran, the Virgin Islands and
the Phillipines, will convene at the Cooperage tonight from 7-9
p.m.

For once, spilt milk is a good thing.
A new student-founded and student-run literary magazine called
“Spilt,” named for the overturned beverage, will soon
be hitting the racks of newsstands and bookstores in Los Angeles,
San Diego and Berkeley.