Friday, May 8

Actress Alicia Silverstone hopes to enlighten non-vegetarians on healthy eating in UCLA lecture

Actress Alicia Silverstone, who released an advice book titled "The Kind Diet," will be speaking at UCLA on nutrition and how food choices affect lifestyle, health, the environment and animals. Read more...

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Courtesy of Donovan Daughtry
Actress Alicia Silverstone will speak at UCLA tonight. She will talk about the health benefits of a vegetarian or vegan-based diet.


Bruins learn from their own “˜Internship’

Most UCLA students would not choose to spend their Friday nights in a parking garage. Yet from midnight to 3 a.m., there is no place that the five members of The Internship would rather be. Read more...

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Courtesy of Connor Vance
The Internship performs at Bruin Plaza during Thank UCLA Day. Tonight, it will perform with Owl Fly South at Kerckhoff Coffee House.


UCLA Jazz Combo Concert to showcase passion of Kenny Burrell through professors, students

After seeing a performance last weekend in tribute of Kenny Burrell and his musical accomplishments, some UCLA student musicians were inspired to emulate the same passion in tonight's Jazz Combo Concert. Read more...

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Ethnomusicology Professor Kenny Burrell sits with fourth-year jazz studies student Julian Le at a rehearsal for the UCLA Jazz Combo Concert tonight in Schoenberg Hall.




UCLA Early Music Ensemble to play 17th century Baroque pieces in Powell Music Series

Before the UCLA Early Music Ensemble began practicing its piece by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, conductor and director Lindsey Strand-Polyak told her students that she came across a misspelling of one of Baroque's most famous violinists with the spelling "Bieber." Read more...

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The UCLA Early Music Ensemble, led by conductor and director Lindsey Strand-Polyak, will perform as part of Powell Library’s Music Series.