Artists and entertainers continually reinvent themselves,
whether its their name or style. I can remember the breaking MTV
news story announcing that Puff Daddy had changed his name to P.
Diddy ““ though he eventually dropped the “P” from
that moniker ““ because he needed a change. In music history,
Bob Dylan has been no stranger to reinventing his style when he
felt trapped as an artist; to free himself from the acoustic
folk-singer image he had acquired, he picked up an electric guitar
to the horror of many of his fans.
At the Daily Bruin, the arts & entertainment editors have
decided it’s about time that the A&E section did some
radical reinventing. How can we cover ever-evolving artists if we
ourselves don’t do some growing? Sure we’ve redesigned
the magazine this quarter, changed our name from dB Magazine to the
more urbane A&E, published students’ creative writing and
dabbled with a broadsheet insert at the end of last year, but the
change that we’re about to make is even bigger than that.
Beginning spring quarter, which we know will be to the dismay of
some of you, there won’t be a 12-page A&E magazine in
Thursday’s paper. But that’s because you’ll find
the A&E section in the paper every day. We’re taking back
the spot in the daily paper that we ditched exactly three years ago
when we started dB Magazine. What this means for you, our devoted
readers, is that you don’t have to wait until Thursday to get
your fill of arts and entertainment stories. You’ll be able
to pick up the Daily Bruin any day and find UCLA’s top
A&E stories: previews of concerts, screenings and exhibits on
campus; columns; and reviews.
We are excited about expanding our coverage and we hope that
you’ll like the move. You are, after all, our first priority.
So let us know your thoughts. Are you thrilled that you’ll
have A&E every day? Going to miss the magazine terribly? Know
of something you want to see us cover in the paper? Love or hate a
review or column? Send us an e-mail. Because while we think this
move is for the best, we are, of course, not afraid of reinventing
ourselves again someday.
E-mail our A&E editor, Jess Rodgers, at
[email protected] or Jake Tracer, at [email protected]
with your thoughts.