Actress Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays Shirley Bennett on the NBC sitcom "Community," appeared at Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Monday along with show creator Dan Harmon, castmates Donald Glover and Alison Brie, and four of the show's executive producers, for a screening of an upcoming episode and a question-and-answer session. Read more...
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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November 2, 4:26 pm
Bruins win Samuel Goldwyn Writing awards for scripts
UCLA graduate student Meg Gifford received the $15,000 first place prize in the 55th annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for her script "Paint it Black" at a ceremony at the James West Alumni Center on Monday. Read more...
Arts
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November 2, 2:25 am
Year-long celebration of Ethnomusicology Department’s 50th anniversary continues Wednesday with concert ‘Music of Europe and the Americas’
Wednesday night, the air in Schoenberg Hall will be filled with music: The sound of guitars will make its way through the halls, shimmering trumpet melodies will wind through seats and under benches and singing voices will waft through the air. Read more...
Arts
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November 2, 2:19 am
Fowler Out Loud series ‘Dancing in Your Living Room’ plans to change dynamic between performers and audience
The small, arched courtyard at the center of the Fowler Museum is not your typical living room. Read more...
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Alumna Lailye Weidman, left, and first-year dance and choreography graduate student Sarah Leddy are the main dancers in “Fowler Out Loud: Dancing in Your Living Room,” which will be held on Thursday.
Arts
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November 2, 2:17 am
Associate Professor David Delgado Shorter awarded 2010 Chicago Folklore Prize for work with Yaqui, a Native American tribe
World arts and cultures associate professor David Delgado Shorter's office looks the way one would imagine a native studies scholar's office would look. Read more...
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Associate Professor David Delgado Shorter received the 2010 Chicago Folklore Prize.
Arts, Arts Columns
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November 2, 2:13 am
REEL LIFE: _Ratings, not quality, affect fall’s TV show lineup_
With Halloween a few days behind us, it seems fitting to talk about something truly morbid "“ the success rates of this season's new shows. Read more...
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James Wolk plays con-man Robert Allen in “Lone Star,” one of Fox’s new television shows this fall season, which was canceled after two episodes because of low ratings.
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Arts
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November 1, 1:53 am
Prized Writers: Four of five finalists for the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards are UCLA students and recent graduates
In a town where everyone has a script to sell, the Emmys, the Golden Globes and the Oscars seem like shimmering mirages on the distant horizon. Read more...
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UCLA alumni Ryan Finnerty (left) and Matt Wheeler are two of the five nominees for this year’s Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards. Fellow Bruins Meg Gifford and Owen Donovan Yarde are also nominees.