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Arts, Film & TV

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May 11, 10:40 pm

Graduate student premieres personal short film ‘The Blessing’

Sometimes an unexpected blessing brings a much-needed conversation. Through nonprofit organization Visual Communications’ Armed With a Camera Fellowship, graduate student in directing Ziyao Liu premiered her short film “The Blessing” on Thursday at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which is running until Friday. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student in directing Ziyao Liu premiered her short film “The Blessing” at the 2022 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The documentary short captures Liu’s process of blessing her mother’s nuptials while coping with the loss of her father. (Neha Krishnakumar/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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May 11, 5:35 pm

‘Poetic Realities’ exhibit to showcase graduate students’ projects across mediums

Graduate students are sculpting, designing and building “Poetic Realities.” The UCLA Department of Design Media Arts is hosting its first annual exhibit on Thursday at the Broad Art Center. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Carrie Chen’s piece, “Temporal Portrait,” displays women of various ages sitting and standing in two rows on a screen. Chen said she used 3D technology and aging software to create versions of herself both young and old. (Shengfeng Chien/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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May 11, 4:54 pm

UCLA student ties dance to academic journey for Fowler Out Loud performance

Rebecca De La O is closing out her undergraduate experience with a bow. The fourth-year economics student will be performing an interactive dance for 2022’s second installment of the Fowler Museum’s Fowler Out Loud series on Thursday. Read more...

Photo: The Fowler Museum’s Fowler Out Loud event series will return for its second in-person iteration since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rebecca De La O will perform an act that combines dance, acting and economics Thursday. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Arts, Lifestyle

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May 8, 8:40 pm

UCLA student honors family, Filipino heritage through baking projects

Sammie’s Sweet Shoppe is more than just icing on the cake. Third-year communication student Sam Manuel began her baking Instagram account in 2019 and turned to the platform as a creative outlet at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

Photo: Third-year communication student Sam Manuel holds a cake topped with raspberries and adorned with green flowers. Manuel said she views cakes as creative challenges, experimenting with flavors and decoration. (Courtesy of Sam Manuel)

Arts, Film & TV

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May 6, 9:41 pm

Q&A: Lead actors of ‘Along For The Ride’ discuss character development and chemistry

Sarah Dessen is teaching Netflix viewers to carpe diem. Releasing Friday, Dessen’s novel-turned-film “Along For The Ride” follows recent high school graduate Auden (Emma Pasarow), who visits her father in the small beach town of Colby where she meets Eli (Belmont Cameli), a bike store owner who shares her struggle to cope with the past. Read more...

Photo: Belmont Cameli (left) and Emma Pasarow (right) play Eli and Auden in Netflix’s “Along For The Ride. (Emily V. Aragones/Netflix)

Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV

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May 6, 8:22 pm

Cinematic Culture: Musicals offer escapism, insight into characters’ inner worlds

From lighthearted rom-coms to blood-curdling horror flicks, movies tend to follow a formula for storytelling made successful by the predecessors of their genres. Given the recurring character and narrative archetypes that characterize each genre, people have come to know and identify with these tropes by relating them to their own lives. Read more...

Photo: (Anna Richardson/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Arts Columns, Music

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May 6, 4:56 pm

Album review: ‘Come Home The Kids Miss You’ falls flat with uninspired themes, features

This post was updated May 8 at 8:43 p.m. The answer to “What’s poppin’?” is not Jack Harlow’s latest album.   Sitting at 45 minutes, the Kentucky rapper’s sophomore album, “Come Home The Kids Miss You,” boasts a hearty 15 tracks with features from some of hip-hop’s most illustrious titans, including Drake and Lil Wayne. Read more...

Photo: Jack Harlow’s album cover for “Come Home The Kids Miss You” features him sitting on a stool next to a microphone setup. The rapper released his sophomore album Friday. (Generation Now/Atlantic Recording Corporation)


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