The upcoming Designathon will help students devise creative and applicable solutions to everyday problems. The second annual Designathon, hosted by Bruin Entrepreneurs, will be held Saturday in Carnesale Commons. Read more...
Photo: Lynn Tieu, a second-year business economics student, and Natasha Puthukudy, a second-year design media arts student, are helping plan Bruin Entrepreneurs’ second annual Designathon, which is taking place Saturday in Carnesale Commons. (Esther Li/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated April 3 at 3:21 p.m. Leonard Koff turns to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” as a philosophical test case. The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host associate Koff’s lecture Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Leonard Koff, an associate at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, will give a lecture Thursday. The lecture will tie in philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’ theories with Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale.” (Daanish Bhatti/Daily Bruin)
Keanu Balani’s cheekbones, reflective from a slight dust of highlighter, summon his inner RuPaul, he said. Having garnered over 39,000 followers, the Instagram makeup guru and third-year political science student said he experiments with over-the-top looks reminiscent of the most flamboyant drag queens, such as Nina Bo’Nina Brown and Jasmine Masters. Read more...
Photo: Third-year political science student Keanu Balani is an Instagram makeup artist with over 39,000 followers. He is also an influencer for Hush, an online beauty retailer. Through his own social media and his promotional content for Hush, Balani shares original looks inspired by holidays and seasonal themes. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)
Connor Brashier made arrangements to take one of his final exams while in Germany. The second-year psychology student will miss finals week because he is currently shooting videos for Shawn Mendes’ self-titled world tour, which kicked off March 7 in Amsterdam. Read more...
Photo: Second-year psychology student Connor Brashier is currently shooting videos for Shawn Mendes’ self-titled world tour. Brashier got his start shooting lifestyle videos for brands like PacSun, but has recently taken to capturing the energy of concerts by artists like Mendes and The Chainsmokers. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Olivia Jade isn’t actress Lori Loughlin’s only daughter – just her more famous one. Even after a quick skim through the news about the recent “Operation Varsity Blues” scandal, many may be unaware of Jade’s sister, Isabella Rose Giannulli. Read more...
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About 85 percent of Wikipedia’s editors are men, and only around 17 percent of the over 1.5 million biographies on the English Wikipedia are about women. Read more...
Photo: On Sunday, the Hammer Museum held a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in collaboration with the Art+Feminism campaign. The event aimed to educate more women on how to create and edit Wikipedia content, and how to cover topics that are often overlooked. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
Social justice entertainment may carry a lesson, but it’s far from homework. The creation, reception and impact of social change films formed the focus of one panel discussion at the second annual Spark Change Summit, which took place in UCLA’s James Bridges Theater on Friday. Read more...
Photo: Panelists at the second annual Spark Change Summit at the James Bridges Theater on Friday discussed how to make an impact in mainstream entertainment and how social justice entertainment is gaining more popularity. (Courtesy of Devon Danksy)
