Sunday, May 10

Fashion or whatever: _Child stars flaunt too much style too soon_

I knew Willow Smith was going to have some sort of influence on fashion when she debuted her whiplash-friendly, heart-shaped mohawk in her music video. Read more...

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Taylor Momsen of “Gossip Girl” fame models the Material Girl line for Macy’s. Momsen’s edgy personal style includes heavy black eye shadow and stripper heels. (MACY’S INCORPORATED)


Alumni thespians put on “Island of Brilliance”

Jill Renner walked hurriedly to a black storefront on Venice Boulevard and, pulling back a large, wooden, ramshackle door, stepped into a small theater space. Read more...

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The cast of Pacific Resident Theatre’s “Island of Brilliance” features current UCLA students and alumni, working with longtime professional actors.


History waltzes into Powell Library for annual dance

NEWS BRIEF: Historical waltz attendees dance through time with rhythm

Though popular dance styles focus on individual, unorganized movement, attendees of a historical waltz event twirled together under the Powell Library rotunda on Saturday. [0:41]

"NEWS BRIEF: Historical waltz attendees dance through time with rhythm"

Imagine a room filled with young ladies decked in Victorian garb and young men in tailcoats and top hats to match, effervescently dancing a waltz across the room. This isn't just a scene out of a Jane Austen novel. Read more...

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Monica Kracy, a fifth-year aerospace engineering student, is the president of the Historical Ballroom Dance Club.




Hammer Museum to screen ‘Space, Land and Time’ documenting works of art-and-architecture collective Ant Farm

Students who want to see cars driving through burning technology, wacky reenactments of JFK's assassination, and giant inflatable installations need not look further than Westwood's own Hammer Museum on Wednesday night. Read more...

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In Ant Farm’s 1975 video art piece, “Media Burn,” the group’s members drive a Cadillac into a wall of burning televisions. “Space, Land, and Time: Underground Adventures with Ant Farm” will be featured Wednesday night at the Hammer Museum.

Credits: HAMMER MUSEUM