A young man with big-rimmed glasses, a beard and a naked baby doll told puns from center stage as the audience’s laughter grew. Fourth-year linguistics student Landen Baldwin said he tries to be lighthearted during any situation. Read more...
Photo: Comedian Landen Baldwin, a fourth-year linguistics student, was involved in UCLA Rapid Fire Improv and HOOLIGAN Theatre Company while at UCLA. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo Editor)
Leanna Maaz embarks on a scavenger hunt every time she travels abroad. In each city she explores, she collects a souvenir that contains the name of the city and arranges the items in a scrapbook to document her journey. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Leanna Maaz started decorating graduation caps after her friends saw her own personalized grad cap when she graduated last year. Since then, Maaz has started a grad cap decorating business for current graduating students after posting an ad in UCLA’s Free and For Sale Facebook page. (Courtesy of Leanna Maaz)
Some friends finish each other’s sentences, but Alberto Loaiza and Kevin Yang finish lines of each other’s poetry. Loaiza, a fourth-year English and Chicana/o studies student, and Yang, a third-year world arts and cultures and African American studies student, are two of four members of UCLA’s slam poetry team and staff members for The Word on Wednesday, the Cultural Affairs Commission’s open-mic poetry group. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year student Alberto Loaiza and third-year student Kevin Yang will both graduate in June after working together on poetry through the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. Read more...
I chose to eat school lunches of cheese pizza and chocolate milk over homemade spiced vegetables, curry and rice as an elementary school kid, but not because I hated Indian food. Read more...
Photo: Turmeric is a plant of the ginger family and is used widely in Indian cuisine. “Turmeric latte” or “golden milk” is a spin-off of “haldi doodh,” a common Indian beverage of turmeric in milk. (Namrata Kakade/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Dylan Karlsson creates poetry with his laptop’s keyboard, transforming individual words into an intricate story with references that reach into the depths of history, politics and literature. Read more...
Photo: Second-year English student Dylan Karlsson and his brother alumnus Stefan Karlsson will show their poetry at the Hammer Museum. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Second-year political science student Weiwen Balter meets artist Cedric Tai in what they both claim as a “serendipitous” encounter. This chance meeting leads to the CAC month-long, weekly art series workshop “Amateur Strategies” in the Kerckhoff art gallery space. Read more...
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