The word "experiment" may often evoke images of scholars in white coats bent over books and beakers, solving hypotheses in laboratories. For UCLA alumna Christine Suarez, movement is her scientific method. Read more...
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 25, 1:14 am
Alumna Christine Suarez to lead free Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions dance workshops in Hollywood
Arts, Film & TV
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February 24, 12:49 am
Graduate student recognized for her cinematography
A man in a black suit stands paralyzed in the middle of a deserted, wet asphalt road. He stares catatonically offscreen, beyond the green, yet glum fields that frame either side of the road. Read more...
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Cinematographer Dagmar Weaver-Madsen won the A. Fraker Student Heritage Award for “The Absence.” (courtesy of Alex DeMille)
Arts, Music
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February 24, 12:39 am
UCLA-based trio jazzes up hip-hop
The Le J Trio plays a smooth blend of contemporary jazz, fusion and hip-hop "“ and just as a team might celebrate a game well-played, the trio celebrates a show with a taco tradition. Read more...
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Left to right: ethnomusicology alumnus Jake Jamieson, third-year student Julian Le and second-year student Owen Clapp make up the Le J Trio. (Courtesy of Austin Quan)
Arts
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February 24, 12:33 am
Different cuisine makes delicious food
It's a small world after all. A few days go, one of my fellow editors told me that she went to a dinner party where the host served bruschetta as an appetizer, which turned out to be the bruschetta recipe I wrote about in my last column. Read more...
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Sous chef Amy Chen provided a traditional Chinese lemon shrimp stir-fry recipe comprised of shrimp, ginger, green onions, brown sugar and rice.
Arts
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February 24, 12:20 am
Experimenting with dance
It's not everyday that one witnesses a dancer pelted by a head of wet lettuce. Read more...
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Dancers rehearse Herman Moore’s choreography titled “1838 West 78th Street,” which is featured in the “Watch This” MFA2 dance concert.
Arts, Film & TV
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February 22, 11:04 pm
Killam with laughter: actor, comedian, and former Bruin lands dream job on “˜Saturday Night Live’ cast
Taran Killam used to dress up as Jim Carrey for Halloween. Last year, he performed a skit he wrote with Carrey on "Saturday Night Live," something he never thought he'd get to do. While attending UCLA in 2000, Killam auditioned regularly for various acting jobs and ended up landing a role on "MADtv," causing him to take time off from school to pursue acting. Two years ago, "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels came to see a show at the L.A. Read more...
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Taran Killam spent a year at UCLA before leaving to take a role on the sketch comedy show “MADtv.” Last September he joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” where he has done impersonations of Michael Cera and Eminem, among other celebrities.
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 22, 11:03 pm
Alumnus O’Brien-Lux works with deaf and other hearing actors to present “˜The Adventures of Pinocchio’ play
As a child, 2010 theater alumnus Colin O'Brien-Lux sat for hours in the Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood, playing Minesweeper while his father worked as a producer on stage. Read more...
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Alumnus Colin O’Brien-Lux will perform in Deaf West Theatre’s production of “The Adventures of Pinocchio.” (courtesy of Colin O’Brien-Lux)