Saturday, July 5



‘WandaVision’ season 1 recap – episode 4

Warning: spoilers ahead. Marvel fans aren’t the only ones obsessively speculating about “WandaVision” – the show’s characters have whiteboards chock full of theories as well. Episode four retraces the story of Geraldine (Teyonah Parris), Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany)’s supposed neighbor who is revealed to be Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) – an agent of the intelligence agency S.W.O.R.D. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Marvel Studios)



‘Cobra Kai’ sparks conversation about Asian American representation in media

“Cobra Kai” shows no mercy when it comes to streaming numbers, but a conversation on the show’s cultural influence strikes hard amid such success. Continuing the story of “The Karate Kid” films more than 20 years later, “Cobra Kai” finds Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) resurrecting their respective karate dojos and getting just about everyone in their lives entrenched in their morally gray rivalry. Read more...

Photo: (Emily Dembinski/Illustrations director)


Maker’s Medium: Art student explores precision, permanence through printmaking

The mastery of materials is fundamental to the artistic process and the career goal of any artist in their chosen medium. Every method requires a different skill set and can evoke different reactions in viewers. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year art student Chereen Tam started off as a sculptor but is now a printmaker. She prefers the medium for its ability to produces many identical copies of one piece. (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)


Video game creates space to discuss mental health, Asian American experience

Emily Pitcher connects love, mental health and the Asian American experience on a star-filled computer screen in “The Space in Between.” As a fourth-year English student, Pitcher said she knew creating video games seemed like an unconventional project for her field of study. Read more...

Photo: Emily Pitcher released her first indie video game, “The Space in Between,” on Jan. 18. As an interactive fiction, the fourth-year English student said players explore themes of love, mental health and the Asian American experience by connecting constellations. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Han and Julia Lee)