Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, men in hats, political drama, fate and free will. "The Adjustment Bureau" combines these elements and questions the amount of control people have over their lives. Read more...
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Credit: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
Arts
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March 4, 12:35 am
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles to host Wild Nothing and Abe Vigoda as part of First Fridays series
When most people think of natural history museums, Brachiosauruses and butterflies probably come to mind. Read more...
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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March 3, 3:24 am
Graduate theater students to perform Anton Chekhov’s play “˜The Cherry Orchard’ as both comedy, tragedy
Though Anton Chekhov's classic play "The Cherry Orchard" has been interpreted as both a tragedy and a comedy, UCLA theater graduate students bring out the lighter side of Russian history. Read more...
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Graduate theater students Colin Simon, left, and Catherine Leong play Peter Trofimov and Charlotta in the upcoming play “The Cherry Orchard,” which opens Friday night in Macgowan Little Theater.
Correction: The original caption for this photo misidentified Colin Simon.
Arts, Music
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March 3, 3:11 am
UCLA bands struggle to distribute their music
Standing outside Amoeba Music in Hollywood one day, third-year political science student Jason Tapia witnessed the cynicism of music consumerism. Read more...
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Jason Tapia and the rest of his band, Morrownow, pass out the band’s EP in front of Amoeba Music in Hollywood in an attempt to market their music.
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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March 3, 2:25 am
Graduate students to exhibit their artwork at the ART MFA Exhibition #1
Jeffrey Hastings, a third-year graduate student in art, once created a to-scale replica of a baseball pitcher's mound out of two tons worth of unfired clay and decomposed granite. Read more...
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Third-year graduate student in art Meleko Mokgosi poses with his work at the art MFA Exhibition #1.
Arts, Music
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March 3, 2:22 am
All-female a cappella group Random Voices set to perform at Fowler Out Loud
In 1999, Molly Jones and a few other female singers thought there was something missing in the a cappella world at UCLA. Read more...
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UCLA’s all-female a cappella group Random Voices will be performing at the Fowler Museum as a part of the Fowler Out Loud series.
Courtesy of MONICA SANTOS
Arts, Film & TV
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March 3, 2:19 am
Documentary “˜A Small Act’ set in Kenya leads to big charitable results
According to alumna Jennifer Arnold, most recent documentaries about Africa have portrayed the continent's people as subjects of pity, despite the filmmakers' altruistic intentions. Read more...
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“A Small Act,” produced by alumna Jennifer Arnold, follows the monetary sponsorship of a young Kenyan student by a Swedish woman, Hilde Back (pictured above).
Courtesy of PATTI LEE