When the rockers of thatwasthen took the prize for best band in last year's Spring Sing competition, they had only just begun recording their work. Read more...
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James Bunning, a fourth-year English student, has been working on writing new songs and developing his music since he performed at Spring Sing two years ago.
UCLA's musical group Road to Damascus includes singers from a wide range of musical backgrounds and tastes, from one member who is trained in classical violin to another who was part of a screamo band throughout high school. Read more...
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Road to Damascus, the only co-ed, Christian a cappella group on the UCLA campus, will be holding its annual spring concert tonight in Ackerman Green Room. (courtesy of Clement Lee)
Wednesday evening, five UCLA professors will abandon their podiums for the turntable at the UCLA Hammer Museum's "Ph.DJs," an event at which professors will get to spin and share the stories behind some of their favorite songs with a student audience. Professors were each asked to design a short set of four tracks to introduce and play in the museum's Gallery 6 annex. Read more...
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Professors and Ph.DJs from top: George Baker, Stephen Deters, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Anthony Seeger and Joseph Teran. (Credit: Hammer Museum)
Il Tramezzino buzzed with the energy expected of a new restaurant. Employees were all smiles as they wiped countertops and placed imported Milanese cannolis behind glass displays. Read more...
The acoustic guitar and the piano are two staples of solo performance. Though the basic sounds of these instruments are always the same, a great solo performer can bring something entirely new to the instruments when he or she is alone on stage. Read more...
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DJ Harper, last year’s Overall, Bruin Choice and Solo winner will return to the Spring Sing competition again this year. Many of his musical ideas are inspired by the work of his father, Don Harper, a film composer who has worked on music for films such as “The Guardian” and “National Treasure.”
Among the emotional paintings and political photographs on the wall in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery is a single poem, inspired by the complexities and contradictions of Israel and one of the final pieces of the Art Peace exhibition. Read more...
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Maya Hochstadter’s “Untitled”
(Courtesy of Maya Hochstadter)
Correction: The original version of this caption miscredited the artist.
Before "Parks and Recreation" caps its third season with a double episode on Thursday, leaving us to wallow in the inter-season gloom, let's take a few moments to appreciate what should someday retire to the pantheon of classic sitcoms. Read more...
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Amy Poehler (center) stars as idealistic government employee Leslie Knope in NBC’s “Parks and Recreation.” The show’s third season ends on Thursday.
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