Los Angeles is home to numerous dessert shops that feature a range of treats from cupcakes to doughnuts to shakes. Urban Confections will select dessert restaurants whose only West Coast location is Los Angeles, highlighting students’ opportunities to taste the city’s distinctive flavors. Read more...
Photo: Vanilla Bake Shop features several variations of cake desserts, including blackberry passion fruit cupcakes. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
The fashion industry is one that constantly evolves and pushes different boundaries every day. On the personal level, the world of fashion is also open to interpretation, giving individuals a chance to reflect their personal style. Read more...
Photo: First-year theater student Lauren Hemmings wears a white dress and black socks with a classic red lip. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A common stereotype exists when it comes to “the gamer.” “The angry middle schooler or high schooler in his basement who just plays video games all day and eats Cheetos and doesn’t have any social skills,” said Adeline Ducker, a UCLA Design | Media Arts alumna. Read more...
Photo: Third-year English student Sophia Staab-Gulbenklan, Design | Media Arts alumna Adeline Ducker and Santa Monica College student Lilyan Kris share ideas about their games. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
Make way Mary Higgins Clark, there’s a new queen of suspense in town and her name is Harper Lee. While 88-year-old Lee doesn’t write suspense-thriller mysteries, she still managed the plot twist of her career with the announcement of her second book release 55 years after her first, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Before there were TLC television shows like “Here Comes Honey Boo,” “Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta” and “Welcome to Myrtle Manor” Americans got a glimpse of Southern life in Lee’s beloved 1960 Pulitzer-Prize-winning classic “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Yet, before she published her famed novel, she wrote a sequel to “To Kill a Mocking Bird” titled “Go Set a Watchman” in the 1950s, which remained unpublished until now. Read more...
Photo: Amid concerns of author Harper Lee’s involvement in its publishing, “Go Set a Watchman,” the sequel to “To Kill a Mockingbird,” will be released in July. (Harper Collins Publishers)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: In this week’s “Balloon & Panel,” columnist Josh Greenberg discusses Japanese anime and manga, such as Yusuke Murata’s “One-Punch Man.” (Courtesy of Yusuke Murata)
Every action we make online is recorded. Whether it’s pictures on Facebook, purchase histories on Amazon or even the momentary flashes captured by Snapchat and Instagram, society is progressively spending more and more time inhabiting an ever-changing yet permanent digital landscape. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Design | Media Arts department will present author Judith Donath Tuesday for its lecture series. Donath, whose book, “The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,” develops interfaces, called data portraits (pictured) that map users’ social media interactions to produce a coherent visual of how people interact online. (Courtesy of Alex Dragulescu)
Los Angeles is home to numerous dessert shops that feature a range of treats from cupcakes to doughnuts to shakes. Urban Confections will select dessert restaurants whose only West Coast location is Los Angeles, highlighting students’ opportunities to taste the city’s distinctive flavors. Read more...
Photo: In this week’s “Urban Confections,” columnist Lindsay Weinberg visits Atticus Creamery and Pies, sampling the “Lemon Lavender” pie à la mode with the “Lemon Lavender” ice cream (above). (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
