Monday, April 27

FIRE IN THE KITCHEN: Slow Food Movement chapter at UCLA emphasizes healthy all-natural dishes

Despite odd discussions about human cheese and fermented mushroom tea, the Slow Food Movement chapter at UCLA is not about culinary extremity. Read more...

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The finished Slow Food-style goat cheese pasta is a healthy, organic version of the traditional carbohydrate-based dish. The ingredients were conscientiously picked and were as locally grown as possible.


UCLA students enact a conversation about nuclear research just before World War II in play “˜Copenhagen”

Just as the chaos of World War II was about to break out in Europe, two friends and colleagues sat down to have a conversation in Copenhagen, Denmark, about the future of nuclear research. Michael Frayn's award-winning dramatization of the night's events, "Copenhagen," is being presented tonight by the UCLA theater department. Read more...

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Third-year theater student Jake Rude and fourth-year theater student Heather Kellogg star as Niels Bohr and his wife Margarethe in “Copenhagen.” The play is a dramatization of events right before World War II began.



Alumna’s documentary ‘The Idiot Cycle’ attempts to prove links between companies’ chemical byproducts and cancer

In her controversial documentary "The Idiot Cycle," Emmanuelle Schick Garcia attempts to prove that the emissions and byproducts of several major chemical companies are causing cancer. Read more...

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UCLA alumna Emmanuelle Schick Garcia began investigating the emissions and byproducts of major chemical companies after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She compiled her research into her new documentary, “The Idiot Cycle.”

Credit: JPS FILMS



Plugged In

Daily Bruin A&E is out and about on campus, seeing what students are listening to. We stopped four random Bruins with headphones on and asked them what they were listening to. Here's what they had to say: Read more...