Nov. 6 – Taylor Swift is ready for it. On Oct. 7, Swift posted on her Instagram, urging her followers to register to vote in the upcoming midterm elections and informing them she would be voting for Democrat Phil Bredesen for the U.S. Read more...
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Jason Arasheben crafts jewelry not meant for your grandmother’s eyes. Having founded his store, Jason of Beverly Hills, in 2002, UCLA alumnus Arasheben has become internationally renowned for his outlandish, diamond-embossed jewelry, which often veers into provocative designs unheard of in traditional jewelry-making, featuring themes like sex and drugs, he said. Read more...
Photo: Jason Aresheben, a UCLA alumnus, founded his jewelry store Jason of Beverly Hills in 2002. The business is now a multimillion-dollar operation, offering outlandish jewelry and catering to an elite clientele. (Courtesy of Jason of Beverly Hills)
Joseph Aleshaiker was walking along Frenchmen Street, New Orleans, when he got an idea for a song. He then returned home and began to write “Frenchmen Street,” inspired by his experience entering bars along the road, each with different musicians performing different genres. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year civil engineering student Joseph Aleshaiker said he writes folk-rock music for full-sized bands, but he often performs his songs alone with a guitar. He opens most of his shows with “Frenchmen Street,” a song he wrote after a trip to New Orleans. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
“An unspeakable ceiling of shadows; a depth of obscurity that no diver can fathom; a light mingled with the obscurity, a strange somber vanquished light; brightness reduced to powder.” Victor Hugo’s words, found in his work “The Toilers of the Sea,” inspired alumna Darcie Crager to create “Ceiling of Shadows (La voûte des ombres): A Night of Victor Hugo” to accompany the current exhibit on Hugo’s drawings, “Stones to Stains: The Drawings of Victor Hugo.” The performance art installation, taking place Monday evening at the Hammer Museum, will mix excerpts from Hugo’s novels, poems and speeches with original music, dance and shadow play to provide further context for the continuing art exhibit, highlighting the author’s writing alongside his artwork. Read more...
Photo: Theatrical reading is one of the performance art forms featured in the installation “Ceiling of Shadows (La voûte des ombres): A Night of Victor Hugo,” which will highlight Hugo’s artwork and writing. Alumna Vaneh Assadourian, who will be reading English translations of Hugo’s texts, said she aims to help bring Hugo’s stories to life by working with dancers and musicians. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Oct. 25 at 10:42 a.m. Over 100 Israeli and Palestinian women looked directly into one another’s eyes for the first time in their lives during Saskia Keeley’s workshops. Read more...
Photo: Perla Karney, the artistic director of the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts, organized an exhibition titled “Love Thy Neighbor : The Refugee Experience.” Featured in the exhibition are images from 2017 summer workshops for Israeli and Palestinian women hosted by Saskia Keeley. (Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)
The national tour of “Dear Evan Hansen” should come with a warning: Bring a box of tissues. The tearjerker follows a high school senior’s struggle with anxiety and suicide. Read more...
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Paul Dano’s directorial debut follows a family patriarch who extinguishes fires in the Montana mountains as his son attempts to put out fires at home. “Wildlife” delivers a compelling mix of whimsy and drama in a film not characterized by a swift-moving plot, but rather the measured and careful development of its characters. Read more...
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