When the fashionable youth started to trade in their platform heels and leather joggers for “mom jeans” and running sneakers, it became obvious that a new trend was upon us. Read more...
Photo: The emerging fashion style of normcore embraces normal, indistinguishable clothing pieces to create a trend that seemingly combines vintage fashions. At UCLA, styles like New Balance sneakers, beanies and straight leg jeans encompass this style of normcore. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)
As the dark of evening settles across a bright skyline, suddenly dice roll, showgirls sparkle and the underground world of crime, promiscuity and shady deals comes to life. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television brings the classic musical comedy “Guys and Dolls,” a play focused around a high-profile dice game, to the Freud Playhouse. The play is set in 1946 New York, where gambling and promiscuous behavior are frequent. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
With a title like “Attack of the Killer Trees,” the viewer may expect a retro horror aesthetic and cheesy special effects. However, Valerie Giuili’s animated film instead offers a colorful, animated story of hapless Louie Lumberjack as he discovers the dramatic repercussions of his unsustainable job. Read more...
Photo: Valerie Giuili is an interdisciplinary artist studying animation at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Her film “Attack of the Killer Trees” won best in show at the 2014 Campus Events Commission’s Shorttakes Student Film Festival. (Justin Chang/Daily Bruin)
In between two of UCLA’s largest annual concerts – Spring Sing and the JazzReggae Festival – British rock band Coldplay set upon Royce Hall Monday night to celebrate the international release of its sixth studio album “Ghost Stories.” Packing Royce Hall to its full capacity, the concert was Coldplay’s only West Coast appearance during the band’s mini world tour, which began in Cologne, Germany, on April 25 and will conclude with a London show on July 1. Read more...
Photo: Coldplay frontman Chris Martin performs the band’s 2002 hit song “The Scientist” during the rock group’s 18-song performance at Royce Hall on Monday night. (Agnijita Kumar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
A fog-enshrouded Transylvania. A castle raised high in the sky in all of its menace and grandeur. A pale and ghastly vampire looming in the shadows. Read more...
Photo: Werner Herzog’s “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” a remake of F.W. Murnau’s famous 1922 film “Nosferatu,” is playing at The Cinefamily Tuesday to Thursday. (Anchor Bay Entertainment)
“Ghost Stories”ColdplayParlophone Records4.5 paws It’s obvious that actress Gwyneth Paltrow broke Coldplay frontman Chris Martin’s heart after the two announced their divorce in March, because “Ghost Stories,” the British quartet’s sixth studio album, is a more sophisticated version of the type of angst and misery found in a preteen boy’s diary. Read more...
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Bees flew into Wini Johnson Brewer’s studio one night, circled a light bulb, died and fell to the ground. Brewer said this dramatic experience sparked her interest in the threatened bee population. Read more...
Photo: A collection of artist Wini Johnson Brewer’s bee-themed paintings is being shown in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery until May 30 as part of her exhibit “The Telling of the Bees.” Brewer said her art reflects her ideas on the confusion directed toward bees and their plight, similar to the confused state that humanity is in. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
