On July 17, 1794, 16 Carmelite nuns paid the ultimate price for their faith during the Reign of Terror. Read more...
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Graduate music students Krystle Casey and Nick LaGesse perform “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” an opera based on the faithful sacrifice of nuns.
Courtesy of Henry Lim
Enter "pangolin" into Google and you would find a definition of a scaly anteater native to Africa and Asia. But Pangolin is also the name of the UCLA-based alternative rock band which is opening for rock band Dawes at Royce Hall today at 7 p.m. as a part of the UCLA Arts Party. Read more...
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Second-year ethnomusicology student Owen Clapp (left) and fourth-year anthropology student Joshua Halpern (right) play in the alternative rock band Pangolin, along with fourth-year anthropology student Kevin Farzad, Reuben Moss and B. Willing James, Halpern’s older brother. The band will open for Dawes today at 7 p.m. in Royce Hall.
It started with a wedding photo. Read more...
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Alumna Jasmin Darznik will read selections from her memoir this Friday.
Courtesy of Jasmin Darznik
Five years ago, Meg Gifford was working long hours in a lab at the University of Nebraska, analyzing organometallic cyclizations for her doctorate in organic chemistry. Read more...
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UCLA screenwriting student Meg Gifford (right), who has won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award, thanks her mentor Lew Hunter (left) for her success.
February 17, 2011 – Rhoda Janzen, UC Poet Laureate (1994 and 1997) and UCLA alumna is reading at the Hammer Museum tonight. Janzen has been a Mennonite, a writer, a model, and more. Her unconventional life is the subject of her best-selling memoir Mennonite In A Little Black Dress. Janzen spoke with Daily Bruin Radio by phone.
Hear one of Janzen’s poems, or read more about her life.
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February 17, 2011 – Although poet and UCLA alumna Rhoda Janzen is now better known for her memoir, her creative roots lie in poetry. She’ll be reading some of that work at the Hammer Museum tonight, and here, Janzen reads her poem “Strongly Scented Sonnet” for Daily Bruin Radio by phone.
It’s about armpits and apples.
Hear or read more about Janzen’s life.
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Before attending UCLA, alumna Rhoda Janzen was raised in a conservative Mennonite home. Read more...
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Rhoda Janzen, author of the best seller “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress” and the poetry collection “Babel’s Stair,” will be doing a poetry reading at the Hammer.
Credit: HAMMER MUSEUM
For many independent filmmakers, winning the Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival is their equivalent of taking home the Academy Award for Best Picture. Read more...
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Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones star in “Like Crazy,” a movie produced by UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumnus Marius Markevicius. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and sold to Paramount Pictures and Indian Paintbrush. (courtesy of Fred Hayes)
Is it me, or does anyone think this whole Justin Bieber craze is a tad much? I'm not trying to be sassy or anything, I'm actually very serious. Read more...
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The 3-D documentary “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” opened in theaters on Friday. (Credit: Paramount Pictures)
