Friday, July 24

Sounds of South India

On Sunday, Ramamurthi will be playing the violin alongside mridangam player Nirmal Narayan and renowned south Indian artist D. Seshachary, a member of the Hyderabad Brothers band, at the Carnatic concert put on by UCLA's Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth Read more...

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Second-year business economics student Shiva Ramamurthi will be playing the violin this Sunday alongside mridangam player Nirmal Narayan and renowned south Indian artist D. Seshachary, a member of the Hyderabad Brothers band at the Carnatic concert put on by UCLA’s Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth.


UCLA alumni to perform in cemetery to celebrate classic horror literary works for “˜Wicked Lit’

A typical play rehearsal takes place indoors on a stage with decent lighting, but UCLA alumni Michael Perl and John Cogan have spent the last couple weeks running through graveyards, getting tangled in spiderwebs and slinking through underground vaults, all under the cloak of night. Read more...

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UCLA alumnus John Cogan, left, performs with co-star Michael Prichard in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Unnamable” at Mountain View Cemetery.


The Psykes, a band formed by UCLA students, to take the stage at Westwood Live

Before forming their band The Psykes, Nathan Kersey-Wilson, Eric Cappello and Nivedan Nayak were simply residents in Dykstra Hall with little knowledge of one another. Read more...

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Third-years Nathan Kersey-Wilson, a jazz performance student, left, Eric Cappello, a music composition student, center, and Nivedan Nayak, a communication studies student, right, play at Kerckhoff Coffeehouse.


L.A. Theatre Works explores modern love in its new radio theater production “˜Completeness’

"Completeness," the L.A. Theatre Works new radio theater production, attempts to answer questions about love and relationships through the story of a romance between a molecular biologist and a computer scientist. Read more...

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Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried star in “Completeness,” a new radio theater production by L.A. Theatre Works at the James Bridges Theater.



Westwood-based band The Ten Thousand to perform on campus

Kevin Moultrie, UCLA alumnus and the vocalist and guitarist for the Westwood-based band The Ten Thousand , hated his job at Starbucks because it lacked kinship. Moultrie said he found the closeness he once yearned for at Starbucks in his band. Read more...

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Kevin Daye, Dylan Robin, Garrett Harney, James Bunning, Satoru Yamamoto