Sunday, April 26

Production Value

In 15 years of dancing, Abi Ameele has choreographed performances for groups as small as two people and as large as 90. Read more...

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Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and Delta Gamma sorority rehearse for their production performance for Friday’s Spring Sing. The Spring Sing tradition originally began as an annual Pan-Hellenic competition called Greek Sing.


Game Lab presents first game carnival

UCLA Game Lab members share thoughts behind art of gaming

May 19, 2011 "“ The UCLA Game Lab's 1st Annual Intermural Carnival tonight will give young game designers from all over Southern California a chance to showcase their new game projects and demos. We spoke with cinema and media studies graduate student and Game Lab member Bryan Wuest about the philosophy behind gaming. Game Lab director and Design | Media Arts professor Eddo Stern also chats about some of his shocking"“literally"“game design concepts. [1:31]

"UCLA Game Lab members share thoughts behind art of gaming"

King Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone, Thor wielded his mighty hammer, and the UCLA Game Lab has the Eli Broad sword "“ or at least a couple drawings of it on its walls and door. Read more...

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A screenshot from one of the games presented at the first annual Intermural Game Carnival, which will be among the games featured today at 5 p.m. at the UCLA Game Lab in the first floor of the Broad Arts Center.

courtesy of David Elliott


“˜A Revolutionary Project’ on Cuba exhibited at Getty

Each of the dozens of photographs in the Getty Museum's "A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now" has a label next to it, except one. Read more...

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Alberto Korda’s print of female soldiers in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, the same place where Korda shot his famous image of Che Guevara, is among the photographs on view at the Getty’s “Revolutionary Cuba: From Walker Evans To Now.”


Fowler gets loud with Brazilian, Ghanaian beats

Back in high school, Kirk Brundage's jam band opened for the famous Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira. Read more...

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The Brazilian music ensemble BatUCLAda will perform with the Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble at the Fowler Museum on the UCLA campus today at 6 p.m.

courtesy of KIRK BRUNDAGE


A cappella groups may need to outsing wind after Spring Sing switches to outdoor venue

After months of preparation, the success of this year's Spring Sing a cappella acts could come down to the weather. Read more...

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The second half of Spring Sing rehearsals. The groups are, in order,

NSU (dance crew)
James Burning (dude with guitar)
DG/PiKapp (Candyland)
Fusion (Jazz Band)
Scattertones (a cappella)
Omechi (Harry Potter)
Courtney Randall (girl with guitar)
thatwasthen (rock band)



Students to get down with Coachella group Thao with The Get Down Stay Down at Royce Hall

This year was the first time the band Thao with The Get Down Stay Down performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the thing that the band's vocalist and guitarist, Thao Nguyen, said surprised her the most was the number of celebrity attendees. Read more...

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Vocalist and guitarist Thao Ngyuen (left), bassist Adam Thompson and drummer Willis Thompson of Thao with The Get Down Stay Down will perform tonight.
Courtesy of TARINA WESTLUND