Saturday, May 2

Sounds of LA: White Arrows

Every year, new artists emerge, ready to be Los Angeles’ next great musical discovery, making their rounds through small club tours across the city. Inspired by the hippie enclaves of Topanga, the backyard punk scene of East Los Angeles or the coastal grunge of Venice Beach, each act has its own distinct sound. Read more...

Photo: Los Angeles “psychotropical” quintet White Arrows defied bland genre categorization when it released a 2014 album that obscures the sound of its 2012 debut album. The group will perform Friday at the Roxy Theatre. (Courtesy of Big Hassle Media)



Louis Vuitton exhibit traces brand through past, present, future

Twilight, mystery and fashion week atmosphere reigned at the Louis Vuitton exhibit in Hollywood. The Louis Vuitton exhibit closed on the day of the Oscar’s on Sunday. Read more...

Photo: Louis Vuitton’s “Series 2” exhibit in Hollywood wrapped up on Sunday, after a month of rooms filled with videos and holographics to celebrate the brand’s clothing and accessories and to promote the Spring 2015 Women’s Ready-to-Wear collection. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Student-run Web series premiere to go ‘Beyond the Bruin’

Wearing leopard slippers, a tiger-patterned cardigan and a vibrant orange afro, Panini Jones laid between two miniature palm trees. Tears flowed down his face as Jones announced his profound aspiration to be as selfless as the tree in the popular children’s book “The Giving Tree.” Jones is just one of the many comedically improvised characters set to appear on the new Web series “Beyond the Bruin.” Created by three UCLA students and premiering on YouTube on Monday, the show will combine serious interviews with comedic acts and musical performances. Read more...

Photo: Second-year political science student Dean Rowe (left), third-year global studies student Ben Kurzrock (middle) and fourth-year political science student Joshua Thomas (right) created the Web series “Beyond the Bruin,” which will debut Monday on YouTube. (Courtesy of Dean Rowe)


Album review: ‘Gliss Riffer’

“Gliss Riffer” Dan Deacon Domino 3.5 Paws Imagine a musical supercomputer has ingested some type of psychedelic substance and completely jammed out for 42 minutes straight. Read more...

Photo: (Domino USA)


Urban Confections: Sockerbit puts the ‘sweet’ in Swedish confections

Los Angeles is home to numerous dessert shops that feature a range of treats from cupcakes to doughnuts to shakes. Urban Confections will select dessert restaurants whose only West Coast location is Los Angeles, highlighting students’ opportunities to taste the city’s distinctive flavors. Read more...

Photo: Sockerbit, a Scandinavian candy store on West 3rd Street in Beverly Grove, features rows of diverse candy. Customers simply grab a white bag and pay for candy by the pound. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)


arTistic Attention: TA Adrien Forney cements his passions for teaching and architecture

When a campus-wide email posting called for French teaching assistants, Adrien Forney thought the position would be a perfect fit. With a life lived mainly within the confines of Perloff Hall’s architectural studio, he needed a job that would help pay the rent as well as complement his workload as a second-year architecture graduate student. Read more...

Photo: Graduate architectural student Adrien Forney picked up his position as a French teaching assistant after he answered a campus-wide email posting. Forney’s experience with the language stems from conversations with his mother, who is from France, and his time at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)