The swiping days are over – with Monet UCLA, doodles lead to dates. Joyce Ma, a third-year sociology student, said she was scrolling through TikTok when she came across a video advertising Monet – a new dating app that initiates matches by sending drawings to interested parties. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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September 19, 8:49 pm
Emmys 2020: Small Screen, Big Wonders
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By Special To The Daily Bruin
Daily Bruin’s coverage of the 2020 Emmy Awards.
Arts, Arts Columns, Music
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March 3, 7:13 pm
Life and Hip-Hop: Grammy Awards have long history of snubbing hip-hop, Black artists
The impact of music extends far beyond the play and pause buttons. Formed in the 1970s as an underground movement, hip-hop has expanded into various art forms and musical subgenres – with rap specifically being one of the most popular musical styles among today’s youth. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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March 2, 5:13 pm
Q&A: Director of ’76 Days’ Hao Wu speaks on humanizing the statistics of COVID-19
After more than a year of COVID-19 worldwide, “76 Days” looks back at the selflessness and suffering in the early days of the pandemic. Shortlisted for the documentary feature category in the 2021 Oscars, MTV Documentary Films’ “76 Days” records the first three months of lockdown in Wuhan, China, during early 2020. Read more...
Arts, Lifestyle
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March 2, 3:53 pm
Alumni couple cultivates online community around Filipino Instant Pot recipes
Tisha Gonda Domingo and Jorell Domingo are co-founders of the largest Filipino Instant Pot community on the internet. The married UCLA alumni made their Facebook group, Filipino Recipes Instant Pot Community, in 2018 with the hopes of creating a space for people to learn about and enjoy Filipino culture, Tisha said. Read more...
Arts, Lifestyle
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March 1, 7:51 pm
Student molds hobby into small business built on her love of crafting
From stickers to woven tapestries to jewelry, Jana Sun has turned her crafting hobbies into a small business. The fourth-year human biology and society student said she launched her small business, Jana Making Things, to share her artistic hobbies with her peers. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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March 1, 5:27 pm
‘Tango Shalom’ dances its way through cross-cultural tale of community
Gabriel Bologna is making moves in the festival circuit with his film “Tango Shalom.” Directed and produced by the former UCLA filmmaking professor, the film has garnered multiple awards including Best Jaipur Critics Film at the Jaipur International Film Festival as well as Best Comedy and Best Lead Actor at the Montreal Independent Film Festival. Read more...
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV
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February 28, 9:31 am
‘WandaVision’ season 1 recap – episode 8: ‘Previously On’
Warning: spoilers ahead. The Scarlet Witch is finally canon – and the name-drop is fully earned. After seeing glimpses of Wanda’s (Elizabeth Olsen) present state of mind through the sitcoms of weeks prior, the eighth installment of “WandaVision” delivers her backstory that was never properly articulated in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films. Read more...
