Melissa Navarro, with her curled hair tucked into a bandana, performed a ska song during her audition for a Rockabilly-singing Latina character from East Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: First-year theater student Melissa Navarro is particularly interested in portraying strong female characters such as Sheila from a short film “Whittier Boulevard.” (Rohan Kumar/Daily Bruin)
UCLA art faculty awarded the art department’s Undergraduate Art Scholarship award in spring to 28 student artists whose works range in medium from photography to ceramics to sculpture to film. Read more...
Photo: Nilo Goldfarb, Penelope Uribe-Abee, Oscar Peña and Gabe Pine (left to right) are four of twenty-eight undergraduate students that won an art scholarship in spring. The students’ work will be displayed in the Broad Art Center until December. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)
Finding a delicious restaurant in Los Angeles can be difficult amongst the city’s thousands of dining options. To help readers narrow down their search, the Daily Bruin will review restaurants located along main street boulevards near UCLA each week. Read more...
Photo: From Indonesian snack items to traditional Indonesian music, Westwood’s Ramayani offers an authentic Indonesian dining experience to its customers. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
All was quiet on the UCLA campus at 6 a.m. Barry Yang sought a filming location that would capture the essence of the university that has become his home over the last three years. Read more...
Photo: Third-year political science and economics student and former Daily Bruin contributor Barry Yang used his drone to shoot aerial footage of UCLA’s campus, which he then posted on his YouTube channel. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
Cole Heramb dyed his hair a vibrant crimson to complement his latest album, “Red EP.” Second-year biology student Heramb released his first album “Red EP” on Nov. Read more...
Photo: Second-year biology student Cole Heramb created both the artwork and the music for his album “Red EP.” The seven tracks on the album were inspired by classic rock artists such as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd as well as personal narratives from Heramb’s student and romantic life. The album title “Red,” is a play on words, referencing Heramb’s colorblindness. (Wesley Hardin/Daily Bruin)
Five-year-old Leon Wu would sneak into his father’s closet and try on his business clothes. “When I was a little girl, because I identify as transgender … I was always trying to find ways to make myself more masculine,” said the UCLA alumnus, who graduated in 2000. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Leon Wu created the custom suit company Sharpe Suiting because of his own interest in buying suits that fit bodies of all genders and types. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
