Wedged in between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, UCLA students have no shortage of places to shop for clothes. However, high price tags can limit shopping options for students on a college budget. Read more...
Photo: (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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May 17, 9:51 pm
Los Robles Master Chorale to perform three UCLA student compositions
The Los Robles Master Chorale’s Saturday performance will feature the world premieres of three UCLA student compositions. The pieces “America,” “E Novem Punctis Unum” and “Loam” by students Nicholas Carlozzi, Vittorio Russo and William Cabison, respectively, were commissioned in fall 2016 by Lesley Leighton, the artistic director of the Los Robles Master Chorale and a former choral composition instructor at UCLA from 2014 to 2016. Read more...
Photo: Music composition students Nicholas Carlozzi and Vittorio Russo and music student William Cabison (left to right) were commissioned to create compositions for the Los Robles Master Chorale. Their works will be premiered on Saturday at the Church of the Epiphany. (Habeba Mostafa/ Daily Bruin)
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV
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May 17, 9:44 pm
Second Take: ‘American Gods’ adeptly handles book-to-television transition
Ancient gods and goddesses run rampant throughout the cities of America in the new Starz series “American Gods.” The show, an adaption of Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel of the same name, has expertly translated the text to the television screen by capturing the book’s magical and bizarre intricacies despite the show’s weak special effects. Read more...
Photo: Ian McShane (left) and Ricky Whittle (right) play the main characters Mr. Wednesday and Shadow Moon in the new Starz television series “American Gods,” based on a 2001 novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman. (Courtesy of Starz)
Arts, Lifestyle
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May 16, 11:38 pm
On-campus bake-off heats up as students compete, taste innovative treats
Zach Martinucci named each batch of his sourdough bread after the characters in the TV show “Westworld” – Abernathy, Bernard and Maeve. Maeve – a rosemary sourdough loaf with roasted pumpkin seeds, polenta and olive oil – was one of the two breads the fourth-year anthropology student featured at “Spoon UCLA: The Great College Bake Off,” hosted by Spoon University on Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: Students tried different baked goods Tuesday at “The Great College Bake Off,” a baking competition hosted by the UCLA chapter of Spoon University in Dickson Court. (Angie Ruiz/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Arts Columns
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May 16, 11:36 pm
Brown and Bothered: Magazine covers should not favor white beauty, misrepresent religion
Students should avoid cultural appropriation – stealing what is considered the beautiful aspects of another culture without respect for the tradition from which it originates. It ignores the racism and xenophobia the creators of the items face. Read more...
Photo: (Harish Balasubramani/Illustrations director)
Arts, Music
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May 16, 11:00 pm
On the Rise: Peridot
In “On the Rise,” the Daily Bruin profiles up-and-coming musicians in Los Angeles. Though our subjects do not necessarily have direct connections with UCLA, they are artists who have brought their sounds to Los Angeles and have taken advantage of opportunities within the city’s thriving music scene. Read more...
Photo: The pop-folk band Peridot is comprised of Hillary Reynolds, Trevor Jarvis and Marton Bisits (left to right). The band released its seven-song EP in 2016. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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May 15, 10:45 pm
Student turns closet into studio to record EP about reality of love
Rico Lomarda emerged from his apartment’s closet with a guitar in hand, having finished working on his songs for six hours straight. The musician’s closet doubles as his studio – the place where he finished recording and producing his four-song debut EP “Love or Something.” Lomarda, a third-year biochemistry student, performs under the stage name Rico Loma and released his EP “Love or Something” in January. Read more...
Photo: Third-year biochemistry student Rico Lomarda recorded his first EP in the walk-in closet of his Westwood apartment. He released the EP titled “Love or Something” in January with the student-run record label Landing 8 Records, which he helped start during his freshman year. His influences. including singers Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran, are reflected in the EP’s first upbeat and groovy song “Breathe,” he said. (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)