Monday, May 11

Science and art find common ground

Bridging the divide between North and South Campus is a collaboration rarely seen in the halls of UCLA. Read more...

Photo: Students from UCLA’s biotechnology and art honors class are preparing for an exhibition of their work in conjunction with Parsons The New School for Design.


Filmmaker finds “˜Father’ in art

Directors have a very complex and intriguing relationship with the films they create. Read more...

Photo: The 2009 film, “The Father of My Children,” won the Special Jury Prize during last year’s Cannes Film Festival and will screen at James Bridges Theater on Thursday.



Vegan diet increases in popularity

Today, "Clueless" darling Alicia Silverstone calls it "The Kind Diet." Now rewind back to 1944, when Donald Watson coined this term, "vegan." In November of that year, Watson founded The Vegan Society and shook up the vegetarian revolution with a new lifestyle completely free of animal products. Read more...

Photo: The Veggie Grill’s “All Hail Kale Salad” includes marinated kale and red cabbage, roasted corn salsa and agave-roasted walnuts with a ginger-papaya vinaigrette. There is also an option to add blackened chicken.


Sound Bite: Janelle Monáe

"I'm just another weirdo, oh better yet, you can call me your hero," Janelle Monáe sings on her first full-length album, proudly crowning herself R&B's nerdiest diva with the aesthetic of André 3000-esque social consciousness and sci-fi love metaphors by way of Amerie's go-go funk and throat singing. Read more...