To create a jazz opera, combine one dead soldier, a 7-part jazz ensemble and 18 stanzas of World War I poetry under a cobweb tent; allow improvisation to follow. Read more...
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Created by several UCLA alumni, the jazz opera “Strange Fellowe” combines acting, improvisational jazz and poetry to form an unconventional musical performance.
Raised in a bicultural household with a Venezuelan physician as a father who brought pictures of dead bodies found in swamps to the dinner table and a mother who got her master's degree in statistics, Christine Suarez pursued an unanticipated career. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Christine Suarez created her own theater production “Mother.Fucker.” in which she evaluates her role as both a mother and a dancer.
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When the show "Chuck" came to an end earlier this year, I had many friends who were quite upset. Read more...
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Ty Burrell, who plays Phil Dunphy in ABC’s sitcom “Modern Family,” exhibits on-screen humor that doesn’t stray too far from his own off-screen personality. (credit: Peter “Hopper” Stone/ABC)
In the southeastern region of UCLA near the David Geffen School of Medicine is a place where it's possible for one to get lost in the sounds of wind passing through trees, squirrels playfully running and climbing, turtles waltzing in a pond. Read more...
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James Eagle, a fifth-year religious studies student, has been producing music for six years and made a soundtrack inspired by the botanical gardens on campus. This is his first full, completed body of work and also the first work he is sharing with others.
Since 1997, of Montreal has released 11 albums, including four concept albums of steadily increasing success. Read more...
Illuminated wedding contracts, silver amulets and carved tablets take on a deeper dimension with the accompaniment of traditional Iranian Jewish music and the taste of Persian tea and spices, in a way presenting the cultural and historical evolution of Iranian Jews. Read more...
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“Light and Shadows: The Story of Iranian Jews” is an exhibit which recently opened at the Fowler Museum. Its various artifacts and manuscripts retell the rich and complex history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities.
Dissenters of Taylor Swift have cited many reasons to criticize her body of work, whether it's that her songwriting seems to always be the work of a 16-year-old high schooler, or that she exploits her romantic heartbreak on purpose as her only source for musical inspiration, or simply that she has never, ever, been a very good singer. Read more...
