Sunday, June 22

New magazine ‘The Paper Mixtape’ features LA art, culture and artists

While going through cycles and cycles of names for her new project, second-year art history student Morgan Cadigan played Iron and Wine’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” on a record player and felt a desire to get back to the roots of vinyl and analog. Read more...

Photo: Second-year art history student Morgan Cadigan (far left) founded the new UCLA arts and culture magazine, “The Paper Mixtape,” to explore the sights and sounds of Los Angeles and support local artists. (Manvel Kapukchyan/Daily Bruin)




Flavors of Westwood: Koala Tapioca offers unique social experience

UCLA alumni David Mangold and Vince Ho, founders of Koala Tapioca, have battled construction issues and a name change of their boba business since its launch as a food truck in November 2013. Read more...

Photo: Koala Tapioca chefs Terrill Cheatham (left), Robert Artega (center) and Nicholas Hopson (right) prepare chicken tacos, one item available on the menu of the food-truck turned brick-and-mortar restaurant that recently opened in Westwood. (Mary Kate Turner/Daily Bruin)


Balloon & Panel: Online self-publishing companies offer new ways to fund projects

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: Tom Siddell’s “Gunnerkrigg Court” is a webcomic that follows friends Kat and Annie studying magic in a boarding school in England. (Courtesy of Tom Siddell)


Urban Confections: Millions of Milkshakes, a blend of stars

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: The “Mr. Pink” milkshake from Millions of Milkshakes blends together banana, cookie dough and Ferrero Rocher chocolates. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)


Man bun trend grows across UCLA campus

Now that the weather is warming up and studying for midterms helps keep showers few and far between, many students have begun pulling up that pesky long hair into a bun. Read more...

Photo: Third-year African American studies exchange student from England Kwayedza “Kwaye” Kureya adopts a braided version of the man bun trend seen lately around campus. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)



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