Friday, March 20

Coachella 2025 review: High prices mean high expectations, but festival food may fail to reach that bar

This post was updated April 22 at 9:11 p.m. In the desert, it is critical to refuel often. And at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, sometimes the only option for sustenance is to choose from the smorgasbord of vendors and booths selling plates of food of various cuisines. Read more...

Photo: A view from inside the Indio Central Market at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival shows festival-goers waiting in line at the MANEATINGPLANT booth. The festival featured a variety of food options, albeit many of them for expensive prices. (Darlene Sanzon/Assistant Photo editor)



Q&A: Poet Marylyn Tan weaves flesh and feminism, queerness and ritual into work

Through witchcraft, digital language and bodies, Marylyn Tan weaves poetry. Tan is the author of “Gaze Back,” a poetry collection described as a grimoire for queerness, feminism and witchcraft. Read more...

Photo: Photographed is Marylyn Tan posing for a headshot with a dreamy overlay filter. The poet gave a reading at UCLA on April 14. She later sat down with the Daily Bruin for a Q&A.(Courtesy of Phyllicia Wang)





Restaurant Review: Boondocks Coffee Roasters offers taste of Filipino culture with specialty drinks

Westwood’s newest coffee pop-up shop, Boondocks Coffee Roasters, is brewing a name for itself through its specialty coffee drinks. Formerly a coffee pop-up, this family-owned shop took residency in a Live Bash space two months ago on Broxton Avenue. Read more...

Photo: Pictured is a person in a green sweater, holding a cup of coffee with a cream top. Emil Vanta, the founder of Boondocks, said the business was established more than three years ago after learning more about the art of coffee beans during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Courtesy of Ron Mallari)



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