Jagmeet Singh, a UCLA global studies alumnus, is a scholar by day and a rap doctor by night, setting verbal traps for any and all who choose to listen to his clever wordplay and poetic versatility mixed with very real messages. Read more...
Arts, Music
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October 28, 11:48 pm
UCLA alumnus uses power of music to create album focused on culture, religion
Arts, Music
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October 28, 11:38 pm
Live From Cork: _Young band Waking Up Sunday delivers talented sound despite youth_
Ireland is full of surprises, and columnist Andrew Bain stumbled across a musical one in Cork. Read more...
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Don’t let their youth fool you, members of Waking Up Sunday play their electronic jazz jams with the skill and maturity of veteran musicians.
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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October 26, 12:02 am
Alum's 'Direction Pieces' exhibit explores alternate perspectives through video
Creating a video of people playing a piano with another person's head is a far cry from UCLA alumnus Tejpal Ajji's original intention of becoming an ancient Greek art historian. When he was a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Ajji started making videos in a sculpture class and got hooked on video making. Read more...
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Exhibit creator Tejpal Ajji said that in choosing locations for his videos, he went with places that stood out in his memory.
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October 25, 11:46 pm
Soundbite: 'III' by the Shiny Toy Guns
Since the synth-pop band Shiny Toy Guns formed in 2002, shifts in their musical style and changes in their vocalists have created a split group of fans. Read more...
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October 25, 11:29 pm
Alumni create unconventional jazz opera
To create a jazz opera, combine one dead soldier, a 7-part jazz ensemble and 18 stanzas of World War I poetry under a cobweb tent; allow improvisation to follow. Read more...
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Created by several UCLA alumni, the jazz opera “Strange Fellowe” combines acting, improvisational jazz and poetry to form an unconventional musical performance.
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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October 24, 11:55 pm
UCLA alumna’s theater production explores her role as mother and dancer
Raised in a bicultural household with a Venezuelan physician as a father who brought pictures of dead bodies found in swamps to the dinner table and a mother who got her master's degree in statistics, Christine Suarez pursued an unanticipated career. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Christine Suarez created her own theater production “Mother.Fucker.” in which she evaluates her role as both a mother and a dancer.
(courtesy of Cedarbough Saeji)
Arts, Film & TV
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October 24, 11:54 pm
Actors’ similarity to their TV characters leads to typecasting
When the show "Chuck" came to an end earlier this year, I had many friends who were quite upset. Read more...
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Ty Burrell, who plays Phil Dunphy in ABC’s sitcom “Modern Family,” exhibits on-screen humor that doesn’t stray too far from his own off-screen personality. (credit: Peter “Hopper” Stone/ABC)