Josh Wasbin

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• Q&A with Jonathan Knight

  Feb. 2, 2010 at 5:30 a.m.

  Video game publisher Electronic Arts created quite a stir in the gaming community when it announced an upcoming title based on the epic poem, “The Divine Comedy.”

• Design | Media Arts students connect life and art in exhibition, 'Away from Keyboard'

  Oct. 15, 2009 at 2:58 a.m.

  In the New Wight Gallery, history is twisting and turning the arms of a group of Design | Media Arts graduate students.

• Musical theater to honor mogul

  Oct. 2, 2009 at 1:52 a.m.

  Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the famous duo responsible for such classics as “The Sound of Music,” and “Oklahoma!” are often credited with laying the foundation for musical theater, and this month, Reprise Theatre Company will honor Rodgers for his contribution to the musical theater genre.

• Tech Review: "Spyborgs" Video game

  Oct. 1, 2009 at 1:20 a.m.

  There is something about sitting down and watching cartoons early Saturday mornings when you are 10 years old.

• Art of the upperclassmen

  June 8, 2009 at midnight

  On Monday, undergraduates scrambled through the New Wight Gallery, finding spots to place their artwork for the undergraduate exhibition “Entitled,” which runs June 4-13 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• Alumni twins unlock secrets to a 4.0

  April 7, 2009 at 12:01 a.m.

  Haig, a dentist, and his brother Jeff, both UCLA alumni, co-authored the book “Unlock Your Educational Potential: What Every Student Needs to Know to Succeed” in order to help students succeed in school.

• Documentary breaks ‘Forty Years of Silence’

  Feb. 2, 2009 at 12:20 a.m.

  Fewer than 3,000 Americans were killed in the tragedy of 9/11, seven and a half years ago, and is it still a major part of our cultural fabric. About 500,000 Indonesians were killed in the 1960s due to genocide, and the tragedy quickly fell from the headlines. Until now, at least.

• Comedy Chameleon

  Jan. 28, 2009 at midnight

  Some build their comedy careers on years of regaling the dinner table to one-liners every Thanksgiving or practicing stand-up on a cassette recorder in the shower. However, “Last Comic Standing” winner Dat Phan started comedy on a whim.

• Los Angeles theater takes center stage

  Nov. 17, 2008 at 1:54 a.m.

  The red carpet is rolling out in Los Angeles. No, it’s not the Emmys, the Grammys or the Academy Awards. It’s the Ovation Awards, the Los Angeles award show for theater achievements.

• After prison, actor took to the stage

  Oct. 7, 2008 at 12:08 a.m.

  Steven Spielberg started off with an 8mm camera as a child.