UCLA is a cultural and entertainment destination – and Happenings is your guide. Happenings.ucla.edu has more than 1,000 “top pick” events each year in sports, arts, lectures and more on the UCLA campus.

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“The Hammer is committed to bringing the best new talent to UCLA and to demonstrating internationally that UCLA is on the cutting edge of culture,” says museum director Ann Philbin. That extends to www.hammer.ucla.edu, where you can check out virtual exhibits, plus videos and podcasts of events with visionaries in an astounding array of fields.

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The world’s top online archive of Mexican and Mexican American recordings is the Frontera Collection at UCLA. The 41,000 digitized selections include a diverse range of material, from early corridos, boleros and sones to patriotic speeches and comedy skits.

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UCLA’s Matthew Fisher collected links to every manuscript from the eighth century to the 15th that had been fully digitized by any library, archive, institute or private owner around the world – and made them available online at manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu. <more>

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Campaign literature since 1920 Attack ads, smear tactics, mudslinging – campaigns have never been dirtier. Or have they? Check UCLA Library’s Online Campaign Literature Archive to see for yourself. Want more dirt? See pieces from one of the world’s largest political cartoon collections, courtesy of Bruin Michael Kahn.

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New media Twitter vs. The New York Times. YouTube vs. CNN. The role of “new media” and “old media” in presidential politics is a hot topic. Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., the new dean of UCLA’s School of Public Affairs, weighs in – via YouTube, of course.

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Urban utopia or nightmarish sprawl? Dream city or hell town? What kind of world do you envision? UCLA researchers are creating new ways to explore, research and understand cities – and sharing their visions of the perfect place.

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Imagine walking down L.A.’s Temple Street with a hand-held GPS device. As you cross Beaudry Avenue, a flag pops up on the device’s on-screen map. Turns out an earlier user of an online interactive guidebook has “attached” a digital image or a snippet of information to these GPS coordinates. Interested in L.A. history? The on-screen [...]

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Team UCLA engineering and art students with Disney Imagineers, then charge them with bringing together art, education, history, culture, community and technology in a very traditional venue – a state park. See what happened when Remapping L.A. gave it a shot. <more>

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New Orleans after Katrina. The economic decline of Buffalo, NY. UCLA’s Nicholas Entrikin studies how external factors can force us to re-imagine cities – and what that reveals about the importance of “place.” <more>

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Guns, Germs and Steel (Quicktime / 2:31 min)Meet UCLA professor Jared Diamond and learn about the inspiration for his best-seller.   Download QuickTime here. Lesson: Be voraciously curious. UCLA’s Jared Diamond brings together such seemingly unconnected topics as (to name but a few) the domestication of animals; the development of the Indo-European family of languages; [...]

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