Tuesday, May 5

The Art Shaped Box club meets every week at Sunset Recreation Center where students work on different weekly art projects. Vanessa Goh, fourth-year environmental science student, works on an art work with color pastels.

Students release creative energy in Art Shaped Box club

A couple weeks ago, members of the Art Shaped Box club found their hands covered in clay after a sculpture tutorial. Read more...

Photo: The Art Shaped Box club meets every week at Sunset Recreation Center where students work on different weekly art projects. Vanessa Goh, fourth-year environmental science student, works on an art work with color pastels.

The Art Shaped Box club meets every week at Sunset Recreation Center where students work on different weekly art projects. Vanessa Goh, fourth-year environmental science student, works on an art work with color pastels.

Against the Grain: Brendan Hornbostel: Black Flag, Iceage build on West Coast Punk

Beyond the blazing fast drums, aggressive guitars and piercing vocals that have made West Coast punk an against-the-grain entity is the adoption of an anti-authority, do-it-yourself attitude that embraces individuality. Read more...

Photo: Black Flag’s 1981 debut album “Damaged,” featured the anthem, “Rise Above,” that cemented the band’s West Coast punk sound.



UCLA student chosen in Oscars Experience College Search

As Anne Hathaway accepted her award for Best Supporting Actress at the 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, UCLA’s own Tatenda Mbudzi was there to hand off her golden statuette. Read more...

Photo: Tatenda Mbudzi prepares for the Oscars during rehearsal at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. He handed over the golden statuette to Anne Hathaway.


UCLA student competes at Orientation LA

After winning his first DJ battle last week, UCLA trap spinster Alejandro “Alexbustamove” Bustamante prepares to battle it out with fresh opponents at Orientation LA. Read more...

Photo: Alejandro Bustamante, a fourth-year Design | Media Arts student who DJs as Alexbustamove, will battle against students from USC and LMU before acts such as Flosstradamus and gLadiator perform at Orientation LA.


LCC Theatre Group show to deliver slapstick comedy

Sometimes the remedy for the winter blues is a big dose of comedy. The UCLA student theater group Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company has the cure with its new show, “Actors, Vampires & Other Cold-Blooded Creatures.” The show will run for two days and will feature different scenes connected by a common theme with rounds of improv in between. Read more...

Photo: Third-year physiological science student Ivy Dang, second-year economics student Omar Nazarkhan and second-year sociology student Brian Trinh practice their improv to prepare for Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company’s new production “Actors, Vampires & Other Cold-Blooded Creatures.”


UCLA startup VineLust helps cultivate wine preferences

The golden age of the algorithm is now. As Netflix’s personalized video recommendation algorithm catalyzed mass online film distribution and Pandora Radio’s music recommendation algorithm redesigned the way people find new music, so is VineLust’s taste algorithm pioneering the way wine will be recommended and distributed. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Pallavi Patil founded VineLust, a wine e-commerce startup that aims to help people explore wines using an algorithm.