Friday, July 24

Movie Review: Blackthorn

Aged by time, lonesomeness and a lifestyle limited by the bottom of a whiskey bottle, James Blackthorn sits on his horse comfortably, in a way that only a hardened bandit could manage. Read more...

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Courtesy of Magnet Releasing


In living color

When Angelica Cardona decided to take an Afro-Cuban dance class during her senior year at UCLA in 2002, she never thought that it would end up shaping the course of her life for nearly the next decade. Read more...

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Performers in Omo Aché celebrate the African culture that has been preserved in Cuba by performing both the music and dances of African groups such as the Yoruba, Arará and Congo, as well as Franco-Haitian music.

Courtesy of Elazar Harem




10th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days to celebrate the life of journalist, show global support for an end to violence, hatred and ignorance

As the first week of October begins, the memory of late Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl will live on through a month-long musical celebration of his life. Read more...

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Clockwise from top left: The Los Angeles Master Chorale, one of the few groups to have participated in the Daniel Pearl Foundation’s World Music Days, performs at Walt Disney Hall. Charmaine Clamor appears at the Filipino-American Jazz Festival. The Daniel Pearl Tree in Nairobi, Kenya gets watered. Musician Miguel Delgado Estevez and sports journalist Mari Montes perform at World Press Freedom Day in Caracas, Venezuela.

THE DANIEL PEARL FOUNDATION



Plugged in

Daily Bruin A&E caught up with some UCLA students and found out what they were listening to on the way to class. Read more...

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Holloway