Upscale restaurants near UCLA anticipate seeing a variety of new customers in the two-week long dineL.A. Restaurant Week starting Monday, offering special menu items at reduced prices. Read more...
Photo: Skylight Gardens, among five other restaurants in Westwood Village participating in dineL.A., anticipates more customers during dineL.A. Restaurant Week. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Assigned class readings have come to a halt for most students, so book lovers can finally relax and enjoy reading for pleasure without the pressure of a deadline. Read more...
Photo: (Scribner, Harper Collins, Viking Children’s, Simon and Schuster and Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Daniel Ordonez spends every Father’s Day with only his mother. Having grown up in a single-mother household, Ordonez, a Design | Media Arts alumnus, said he remembers his mother taking him to the bus stop every morning at 6 a.m. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Daniel Ordonez founded Thanks Mom, a business that creates greeting cards with messages of appreciation for mothers. Thanks Mom sent cards to single mothers Sunday in honor of Father’s Day. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Olivia Taylor has written about failing a class, peeing her pants in Powell Library and being caught faking a New Zealand accent. Taylor, a fourth-year sociology student, said all of her funniest short stories are drawn from her worst experiences at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year comedian Olivia Taylor has tutored children through the Incarcerated Youth Tutorial Project at UCLA. After graduation, Taylor wants to become a television writer, but eventually hopes to merge her passions of teaching and comedy with a summer camp for young girls. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Beaming friends donning blue sashes embrace under the arches of Royce Hall, ready to document their dwindling time as undergraduates. A photographer urges the graduating seniors to laugh before capturing the bittersweet moment. Read more...
Photo: Alumni and student photographers, such as fourth-year biology student Kyle Rubalcava (above), have taken to campus landmarks such as Royce Quad to document seniors leaving UCLA in graduation photo sessions. These shoots provide photographers with a source of income and give students a keepsake of their college experience. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
Faith Kearns has been in about 30 full-length and one-act plays, won two poetry awards, given five poetry readings, written six one-act plays and received highest honors for her creative thesis from the English department. Read more...
Photo: Sixth-year Faith Kearns balances her English degree with a theater minor to cover two of her passions. The playwright, poet and actor plans to pursue theater after graduation, first as a manager of Vanguard Repertory Company. (Helen Kwak/Daily Bruin)
One Christmas, Kassie Leblanc received a small blowtorch from her mother. Leblanc, who has been baking since she was a child, said she cherishes the gift, as it’s perfect for making crème brûlées. Read more...
Photo: After graduation, fourth-year English student Kassie Leblanc will work full-time at Bruin Plate as an assistant manager, one of the first students to earn this position. In the future, she hopes to become a pastry chef. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
