BY ANNA SAVISAAR A&E contributor [email protected] Alumnus Josh Scherer received a Chipotle gift card and, jokingly, an acorn squash during a Secret Santa dinner with the UCLA track and field team. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Josh Scherer is the associate dine editor at Los Angeles Magazine and author of the food blog Culinary Bro-Down. He recently finalized the contract for a cookbook based on his blog’s recipes. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
“Finish him!” – with two words, “Mortal Kombat” forever changed the landscape of video games and popular culture. Centered around a series of fight-to-the-death tournaments where the best fighters from the world’s multiple realms battle for supremacy, “Mortal Kombat” set a new standard for video game violence and even caused the congressional hearings that created the video game rating system. Read more...
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In large, boldfaced text at the top of the back cover of “Olivay” by Deborah Reed are the words, “We don’t believe that our lives can change in an instant – until they do.” It is an elegant statement that, at first glance, promises depth and profundity. Read more...
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Deborah Reed started writing in 2011 under the pen name Audrey Braun to avoid the genre writer label. The UCLA Extension professor felt authors that wrote thrillers or science fiction novels, like her, were stigmatized as lesser kinds of writers than those that wrote literary fiction. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Extension professor Deborah Reed authored “Olivay,” a novel set against a backdrop of the Los Angeles Marathon. In the book, bombs detonate across the city and trap Olivay and her one-night stand inside her loft, forcing them to experience the aftermath of the bombing with each other. (Courtesy of Andrew Reed)
Amit Pujari felt like a gorilla at a November wedding when he was 16 years old. The first-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student was not clad in a leftover, full-bodied Halloween costume; he was embracing an untamed, full beard for No Shave November. Read more...
Photo: First-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student Amit Pujari is part of a group of students participating in No Shave November. Some students said they partake because of trendiness and comfort, though others criticized the unequal participation by genders and the lack of awareness towards the cause. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
Twitching corpses, shaking ghouls and blow-up Star Wars characters appear on Westwood Boulevard every fall. They are housed within the doors of the Halloween Club, the seasonal pop-up shop and extension of the Aahs! Read more...
Photo: In 1986, Jack Bhasin bought out the previously owned Aahs! store in Westwood and ran the business with his wife, his cousin and his uncle. Nine years later, the owners brought a Halloween Club to Westwood. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
There’s no better place to keep a finger on the pulse of arts and entertainment happenings than Los Angeles. The A&E world is alive – it’s always buzzing, sometimes ready to implode with a hint of a surprise album or a celebrity’s controversial statement. Read more...
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