Coming up with a good idea is only one of the 1,000 little things that makes Nancy Vu happy.   And three years ago, Vu, now a first-year nursing student, came up with an idea. Read more...

Photo: First-year nursing student Nancy Vu, creator of the popular blog “Just Little Things,” is the author of a book that features Vu’s chronicles of the many little things that make people happy. (Kelsey Kong/Daily Bruin)

February brings love notes and roses, cupids and valentines. But there’s another “V-Day” this month that gifts gender empowerment instead of chocolates. Throughout the month of February, UCLA students of Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art will host an ongoing V-Day campaign for gender equality with performances and panels aiming to fuse art and activism in a creative way. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year Latin American studies student Jen Lainez performs as part of “The Vagina Monologues,” which will conclude a month-long campaign titled V-Day, hosted by UCLA students of Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art. Each V-Day event follows a donation-based admission price.

As Tanino Drago descends the stairs wearing a white chef‘s coat with two small Italian flags on both sides of the collar, he is greeted by excited shouts of “Tanino!” and hugs a longtime customer. Read more...