The new year means new beginnings, new experiences and of course, new releases of music. In anticipation for the exciting never-before-heard music that lies ahead in 2015, Daily Bruin A&E; reporters look back at some of the memorable albums that have left a mark on music in 2014. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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December 21, 11:01 pm
UCLA students react to controversy surrounding film ‘The Interview’
This post was updated at 12:10 a.m. on Dec. 22. UCLA students are some of the only people in the world that have ever seen the controversial film “The Interview” on the big screen. Read more...
Photo: Because of the canceled release of “The Interview,” UCLA students are some of the few people in the world to have ever seen the film in theaters. The event was sponsored by Sony and was screened on Dec. 8 at the James Bridges Theater prior to the threats leveled by unknown hackers. (Courtesy of Andy Tran)
Arts, Lifestyle
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December 15, 2:50 am
Students celebrate winter holidays with gift exchanges
Now is the time of year when De Neve Dining Hall starts serving leftover turkey, water falls from the sky and winter break looms ominously over the student body. Read more...
Photo: Third-year psychology student Shannon Kanegawa (left) and first-year undeclared life sciences student Allison Cutshall (right) are among many students searching for the right gifts this holiday season. Daily Bruin A&E presents gift ideas from books and films sure to please every post-finals week college student. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
Film & TV
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December 15, 2:50 am
Movie Review: ‘Inherent Vice’
Thomas Pynchon, the notoriously reclusive writer of such postmodern classics as “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” has built a career off novels deemed too dense, idiosyncratic and cerebral to ever be translated to the screen effectively. Read more...
Photo: (Warner Bros.)
Music, Video
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December 15, 2:49 am
KWAYE – A new music artist hits UCLA from the UK
Positive energy and soulful music is what this exchange student from the United Kingdom is about. Kwayedza Kureya, or more commonly known by his musical name, KWAYE, is studying at UCLA for a year, and he’s already making an impact. Read more...
Photo: (Vikram Kumar/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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December 15, 2:47 am
Q&A: Alumna talks band Smoke Season tour, Spring Sing performances
Three and a half years ago Gabrielle Wortman stood on a stage at the Los Angeles Tennis Center and performed for a crowd of thousands at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. At the time she was a music media and management student at UCLA. Now she, along with her new band Smoke Season, is traveling in a tour van on an seven-city tour up the West Coast. Read more...
Photo: Jason Rosen (left) and UCLA alumna Gabrielle Wortman (right) comprise the band Smoke Season. Having played twice at Spring Sing, Wortman said her performances at UCLA prepared her for her musical career. (La Famos)
Arts, Film & TV, Lifestyle, Theater & Fine Arts
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December 12, 8:00 pm
Second Take: Amazon breathes new life into ‘The Man in the High Castle’
After a long delay, one of Philip K. Dick’s unreal worlds just became slightly realer. Amazon has finished filming a pilot for an online ongoing series based off of Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” after years of languishing in pre-production, including a canceled Syfy miniseries. Read more...
Photo: (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)