As American frontiersmen and pioneers pushed farther west in the late 19th century, they forged their way through some of the most inhospitable regions on the continent. Read more...
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Design | Media Arts graduate student David Wicks fuses landscape art and programming in “Drawing Water,” which trails water usage in America.
June 6, 2011 – Fourth-year music media and management student Gabrielle Wortman won the Bruin Choice Award at UCLA’s 2009 Spring Sing competition. Here Wortman talks a bit about her melodica, and she gives us a sample of her singing skills. [1:30]
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Fourth-year music media and management student Gabrielle Wortman hears music in her head all day, even during finals. Read more...
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Fourth-year music media and management student Gabrielle Wortman performs “Machine,” the song that she played at this year’s Spring Sing.
Juliane Godfrey took a 15-hour round-trip flight to New York for an audition that lasted 90 seconds. Read more...
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Fourth-year musical theater student Juliane Godfrey will be traveling to New York after graduation to perform in “A Chorus Line” and “Anything Goes.”
During your time at UCLA, what was your favorite arts and entertainment event on campus? Read more...
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Claire DeBolt
4th year, PsySci major
Printed across the top white layer of the middle drum, the words "Power" and "Determined" serve as inspiration for fourth-year psychology student and drummer Solveig Deranteriasian, who also goes by her musical nickname, "Sozo." As she begins to beat her drums with greater intensity, the delicate white skin of the snare head breaks, and she stops to replace it with her calloused hands. Read more...
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Solveig Deranteriasian rehearses drumming at Pacifique Studios, her family’s recording studio in North Hollywood. Deranteriasian mixes the intensity of metal music with the grooves of hip-hop and rap.
(Courtesy of Solveig Deranteriasian)
Less than a year after he started to DJ, Rej Dhingra found himself performing onstage with Wolfgang Gartner, a Grammy-nominated DJ and producer, in Los Angeles on a Friday night. Read more...
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Fifth-year philosophy student Rej Dhingra, whose DJ name is Funk the Fresh, runs “Controversy” at The Standard Hotel located in Hollywood. Dhingra’s musical style also incorporates elements of funk music.
(Courtesy of Michael Melwani)
For fourth-year communication studies student Josie Loren, the definition of a panic attack includes balancing auditions, having a lead role on ABC Family's "Make It or Break It" and being a full-time student, which is exactly the life she lived for the past four years at UCLA. Read more...
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Fourth-year communication studies student Josie Loren balances being a full-time student with her acting career, which includes a leading role in ABC Family’s “Make It or Break It,” as well as guest roles in other shows, including “Castle.”
