What do Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi and a Care Bear all have in common? UCLA's Rapid Fire Improv group has embodied these characters at its shows, at the audience's suggestion. Read more...
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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April 29, 12:25 am
Rapid Fire Improv group uses audience involvement in its shows for 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?'-style games
Arts, Arts Columns
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April 29, 12:22 am
Endangered Series: _Detective show 'The Killing' is consistent with AMC's high standards, viewership_
The cable channel AMC has what casual baseball fans like to refer to as a "good batting average." Since taking a chance on a little show called "Mad Men," the network has given birth to five original dramas. Read more...
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The pilot of AMC’s original series “The Killing” was the second-most popular debut in the network’s history. The show follows a pair of Seattle-based detectives on their season-long search for the murderer of a 17-year-old girl.
Courtesy of Carole Segal
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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April 29, 12:15 am
Graduate student of choreography Elizabeth Terschuur to present her deeply personal final concert 'Off The Grid'
Elizabeth Terschuur describes herself as both a rebel and an underdog. Tonight, the third-year graduate student with an emphasis in choreography will present her final concert, "Off The Grid," in Kaufman 200. Read more...
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Elizabeth Terschuur and Nguyen Nguyen, graduate students with emphases in choreography, rehearse a duet which they will perform in Terschuur’s final concert, “Off The Grid,” today in Glorya Kaufman 200 at 8 p.m.
Courtesy of Elizabeth Terschuur
Arts, Music
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April 28, 12:20 am
Fowler to celebrate Duke Ellington’s birthday with concert
Friday, third-year ethnomusicology student Miles Freeman will be paying "“ and playing "“ a tribute to one of his inspirations, a man he describes as the "American Mozart." Read more...
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Credit: Smithsonian Institution
Duke Ellington (left) with the Bharatiya Kala Kendra Orchestra in New Delhi, India in 1963. The photo is a part of the exhibit running with the performance.
Arts
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April 28, 12:10 am
Final MFA exhibition’s works explore blurred boundaries of real, abstract
Today's culminating MFA 4 exhibition at the New Wight Gallery expresses worlds between conceptual realms. Read more...
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The MFA 4 exhibition opens tonight in the final installation in a series of graduate student art shows. Ryan Sluggett’s painting “Family Limo” is among the work on display.
Arts
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April 28, 12:05 am
UCLA alum Kevin Ung finds film success overseas through “˜Chubby Can Kill’
In an economy in which 85 percent of students in 2010 planned to "boomerang" back home after graduation, recent UCLA graduate Kevin Ung instead moved across the globe last week, alone, to Hong Kong, to pursue the unstable career of filmmaking. Read more...
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Courtesy of Kevin Ip
Actor Kevin Ip in UCLA alumnus Kevin Ung’s film “Chubby Can Kill,” which will be shown at the Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival entry taking place in Los Angeles this weekend.
Arts
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April 27, 11:55 pm
UCLA alumni’s award-nominated documentaries to screen at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
First stop, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Next stop, Sundance. Read more...
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Courtesy of Christopher Woon
A still from UCLA alumnus Chistopher Woon’s documentary “Among B-Boys,” which follows a group of Hmong youth that turn to break dancing in Fresno.