After six years of Tobias Funke-style emotional investment, "Arrested Development" fans will be given a lump sum return. The 10 episodes of the new season will be dropped on Netflix. Read more...
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April 24, 11:24 pm
Remote Life: Taking it one episode at a time
Arts, Music
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April 24, 7:45 am
Bit by bit: UCLA Game Lab to host concert featuring chiptune music
Video game consoles are meant to be played, but for a "chip" artist, playing means taking one of these devices and constructing a music scene using only nostalgic "bleeps" and "bloops." Read more...
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Attic Bits member Mike D’Errico, also known as Attic Bat, creates electronic music through his modified vintage video game console. This is a part of the “chiptune” subculture, which prides itself on reformatting old electronics to create new music.
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April 24, 7:43 am
UCLA Film & Television Archive to screen 'Our School,' which looks at segregation in Romania
The practice of segregating children into separate classrooms, schools and life paths seems like an outdated issue for those in the United States. Read more...
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The documentary “Our School” follows three Roma children and their efforts to integrate into the local schools in their rural Romanian town.
Credit: UCLA Film & Television Archive
Arts, Music
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April 24, 7:40 am
Soundbite: "Landline"
Greg Laswell has always been a bit of an enigma in the singer-songwriter genre. His vocal range is relatively limited, strongest in lower registers and delivered with an almost wry, deadpan singing style. At the same time, however, Laswell's voice is smooth and typically pitch-perfect. As a result, music listeners seem to either love his voice or move on to more overtly emotive singers. Read more...
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April 24, 7:36 am
UCLA Music Choral Outreach Program wins the grand prize in Zipcar’s "Students With Drive" contest
It's common to see students selling baked goods on Bruin Walk, but it's less common to find a group who will trade a cookie for an online vote. For the past few weeks, members of the UCLA Music Choral Outreach Program have passed out baked goods in exchange for a vote in Zipcar's "Students With Drive" program. Read more...
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On Monday, the UCLA Choral Music Outreach Program was presented with a $25,000 grand prize.
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April 23, 10:28 am
Bruin plays leading role opposite Dane Cook, Josh Hutcherson in “˜Detention’
Shanley Caswell, is following a different script than the average college student. Since she was 16, Caswell has been acting in Hollywood, scoring minor roles on popular TV shows such as "The Mentalist," "I-Carly," "CSI: NY" and "Bones." Her new movie, "Detention," which opened on April 13, was the first film in which she was cast in a leading role. Read more...
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Third-year anthropology student Shanley Caswell is co-starring in the film “Detention,” alongside comedian Dane Cook and “The Hunger Games” actor Josh Hutcherson. Caswell has also played minor roles in several television shows, including “The Mentalist,” “I-Carly,” “CSI: NY” and “Bones.” She just finished filming a horror film titled “The Warren Files.”
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April 23, 10:25 am
Q&A: Richard Carpenter shares notes on career in music industry
Richard Carpenter, the multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, producer, arranger and half of the dynamic brother and sister duo, the Carpenters, is set to speak with students at UCLA as part of professor David Leaf's Music Industry 105 course: "Songwriting: Killer Hooks, Essential Songs and Songwriters of the Rock Era." Carpenter spoke with Daily Bruin's Manjot Singh about the direction of music, his career and how to make it in the music industry. Read more...
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courtesy of ROBERT L. KNUDSEN
Famed rock duo Karen and Richard Carpenter, better known as “the Carpenters.” Richard Carpenter will be a guest lecturer for the undergraduate class Music Industry 105.