Lines of rhymes and beats from a Roland 808 drum machine blast out from an unlikely place: a residence hall lounge. Fast freestyles and fast flow are all part of the meetings held by UCLA’s Rap Music Club. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Rap Music Club is a student organization on campus that serves as a platform for self-expression and appreciation of rap as an art form. The club meets every Tuesday to participate in freestyle sessions and rhyme games. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
In the new season of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning series “House of Cards,” the delicate house that Congressman Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) worked tirelessly to build threatens to collapse. Read more...
Photo: Courtesy of Netflix
Opera UCLA brings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte’s classic “Don Giovanni” to UCLA’s Freud Playhouse this Friday and Sunday. Daily Bruin reporter Emma Oeland details the performers’ experience in preparing for the musical work and how relevant it is in today’s art world with Juliana Gondek, a professor of voice and opera studies at UCLA. Read more...
Porn is increasingly becoming a part of modern, popular culture. In 2013 alone, users visited Pornhub.com 14.7 billion times. However popular the medium may be though, pornography remains a divisive issue. Read more...
This week, 18th-century playboy Don Giovanni returns to the UCLA stage donning a black-and-white suit and fedora. On Feb. 14, Opera UCLA premiered a contemporary production of Mozart’s classic two-act opera “Don Giovanni.” A winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, guest director Jeffrey Buchman’s production is showing again at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse this Friday and Sunday. Read more...
Photo: Opera UCLA, UCLA Philharmonia and the Department of Theater collaborate on a modern adaptation of Mozart’s two-act “Don Giovanni” by guest director Jeffrey Buchman. The performance premiered at the Freud Playhouse on Feb. 14 and continues with performances this Friday and Sunday. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin)
Sex, lies and obsession play out in the somber streets of a rainy Vienna in director Nicolas Roeg’s 1980 baroque masterpiece “Bad Timing.” From its opening scene, in which paintings by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt appear alongside the jazz-tinged music of singer Tom Waits, “Bad Timing” comes on like a fever dream of Freudian psychoanalysis and a popular detective novel. Read more...
Photo: Art Garfunkel of Simon and Garfunkel and Theresa Russell star in Nicolas Roeg’s “Bad Timing,” a thrilling love story between a young psychology professor and his pill-addicted love interest. The film will be screened at The Cinefamily on Friday night. (Courtesy of The Criterion Collection)
As the clock ticked past midnight in downtown Los Angeles, electronic music intensified inside Exchange Los Angeles, with deep bass trills pushing the limits of the sound system and morphing genres together. Read more...
Photo: DJ and co-founder of Dirtybird Records, Justin Martin performed the premiere of his bimonthly residency at Exchange LA Saturday night, with deep bass trills and morphing genres. (Courtesy of Kyle Hendrix)
