I chose to eat school lunches of cheese pizza and chocolate milk over homemade spiced vegetables, curry and rice as an elementary school kid, but not because I hated Indian food. Read more...
Photo: Turmeric is a plant of the ginger family and is used widely in Indian cuisine. “Turmeric latte” or “golden milk” is a spin-off of “haldi doodh,” a common Indian beverage of turmeric in milk. (Namrata Kakade/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Dylan Karlsson creates poetry with his laptop’s keyboard, transforming individual words into an intricate story with references that reach into the depths of history, politics and literature. Read more...
Photo: Second-year English student Dylan Karlsson and his brother alumnus Stefan Karlsson will show their poetry at the Hammer Museum. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Second-year political science student Weiwen Balter meets artist Cedric Tai in what they both claim as a “serendipitous” encounter. This chance meeting leads to the CAC month-long, weekly art series workshop “Amateur Strategies” in the Kerckhoff art gallery space. Read more...
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To highlight the delicious perks of her vegan lifestyle, Daily Bruin staffer Alejandra Reyes-Velarde showcases 10 diverse vegan restaurants in the West Los Angeles area. She will be joined by Daily Bruin staffer William Thorne to bring a meat-eating perspective to vegan cuisine. Read more...
Photo: Erin McKenna’s Bakery on Larchmont Boulevard offers vegan cupcakes and donuts, including the coffee crunch donut. (Alejandra Reyes-Velarde/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. Read more...
UCLA track team and second-year physics student Scott Snow explains how to play his patented original game, Strings. Read more...
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Damali Stennette was wearing her hijab when a Christian preacher singled her out from the Bruin Walk crowd. The preacher said, “You are evil, and everything that will come out of your womb is evil because you are Muslim.” Stennette, a fourth-year anthropology student, said she chooses to continue wearing the hijab despite occasional harassment because Islam, like her race and gender, is an integral part of her identity. Read more...
Photo: Despite experiencing Islamophobia, fourth-year anthropology student Damali Stennette wears a hijab because, like her race and gender, it is an integral part of her identity. She will join Muslim UCLA students – women and men – in sharing their relationships with the Muslim custom of wearing the hijab through a spoken word performance at the Hijab Monologues on Tuesday in Franz Hall. (Daniel Alcazar/Photo editor)
