March 3, 2011 – Reporter Wan Wong enjoyed the range of styles on DeVotchka’s new record, but she thinks that listeners will probably pick and choose their favorite parts. [2:25]

Love hurts even the musicians. Alexandro Hernandez, an ethnomusicology graduate student, was rejected in the mountains of Mexico but found love riding bikes in San Francisco. He spoke to reporter Wan Wong. [3:14]

UCLA plans to replace its current Faculty Center with a new hotel and conference facility. Ann Duncan is one of a group of preservationists hoping to save the existing building. Her family also helped found the Faculty Center. But this isn’t a story about revenue or facilities. This is a love story. [2:53]

September 27, 2010 – On Sept. 25, a group of models of all shapes and sizes dressed up for the Strut For Prevention Fashion Show at the Trina Turk clothing boutique in Beverly Hills. [3:06]

April 30, 2010 – The music of Jonathan Dove’s opera “Flight” takes the audience into a land of an imaginative landscape. The orchestra provides dramatic rhythms and avant-garde minimalist harmonies. In doing so, the orchestra supports the grounded passengers at an airport terminal by guiding them through the crossroads of their lives. [2:57]

Music and art let people pursue a common interest. The artistic forum “It’s All Been Done Before but Not by Me” allows students perform and express themselves through art in a presentation on April 29 at the Hammer Museum. As event leaders, students from UCLA Live’s Student Committee for the Arts and the Hammer Student Association are preparing for the submission process. Wan Wong has more.

2009 was accompanied by one of the biggest losses in U.S. stock market history. The economy seemed to be stuck in a rut, with bank bailouts and plummeting stock indexes. But measurements of consumer confidence before the arrival of 2010 showed that consumer confidence is up 2.3 points. Does this small victory accurately indicate our nation’s economic future?

UCLA beat ‘SC week tradition Car Smash turned studious bears into incredible Bruins. Bruin Plaza was delightfully fierce Monday afternoon.