For the most part, we're out of Midterm-land. Read more...
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Credit: ABSENTEE RECORDINGS
Arts, Film & TV
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February 18, 12:02 am
Screen Scene: “Even the Rain”
History, fiction and reality intertwine in "Even the Rain," which follows a Spanish film production company as they shoot a 16th century New World epic in Bolivia. Read more...
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Credit: VITAGRAPH FILMS
Arts, Film & TV
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February 17, 11:59 pm
Screen Scene: “I Am Number Four”
It is hard not to judge a book by its cover, and the same concept applies to a movie's title. Read more...
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Credit: TOUCHSTONE PICTURES
Arts, Music, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 17, 11:55 pm
UCLA to put on French opera ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites’ at Schoenberg
On July 17, 1794, 16 Carmelite nuns paid the ultimate price for their faith during the Reign of Terror. Read more...
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Graduate music students Krystle Casey and Nick LaGesse perform “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” an opera based on the faithful sacrifice of nuns.
Courtesy of Henry Lim
Arts, Music
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February 17, 1:39 am
Alternative rock band Pangolin to play in Royce Hall tonight as part of UCLA Arts Party
Enter "pangolin" into Google and you would find a definition of a scaly anteater native to Africa and Asia. But Pangolin is also the name of the UCLA-based alternative rock band which is opening for rock band Dawes at Royce Hall today at 7 p.m. as a part of the UCLA Arts Party. Read more...
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Second-year ethnomusicology student Owen Clapp (left) and fourth-year anthropology student Joshua Halpern (right) play in the alternative rock band Pangolin, along with fourth-year anthropology student Kevin Farzad, Reuben Moss and B. Willing James, Halpern’s older brother. The band will open for Dawes today at 7 p.m. in Royce Hall.
Arts
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February 17, 1:09 am
Alumna Jasmin Darznik to read excerpts from memoir ‘The Good Daughter’ about her mother’s previous life in Iran
It started with a wedding photo. Read more...
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Alumna Jasmin Darznik will read selections from her memoir this Friday.
Courtesy of Jasmin Darznik
Arts, Film & TV
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February 17, 1:01 am
Graduate screenwriting student Meg Gifford wins Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award
Five years ago, Meg Gifford was working long hours in a lab at the University of Nebraska, analyzing organometallic cyclizations for her doctorate in organic chemistry. Read more...
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UCLA screenwriting student Meg Gifford (right), who has won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award, thanks her mentor Lew Hunter (left) for her success.