Thursday, April 9

Not all students are real pirates

May is a month of potential and doubt. Named after Maia, the Roman goddess of growth, the month can suggest the coming of new and better things just as plants that sprout in April usually flower about now. Read more...


A modernist legacy

When visiting a modern-art exhibit, one inevitably hears remarks such as, “I just don’t get it,” or “They paid millions for that? I could have done that with Crayolas!” Indeed, 20th-century modern art is grossly misunderstood and thus greatly underappreciated. Read more...


REVIEW: 'The Black Rider'

Audience members filing into the Ahmanson Theater for the April 26 performance of “The Black Rider” most likely had no idea what they were in for. Read more...



Comics come alive

In Powell 228, the man responsible for the death of Captain Marvel sat among UCLA students, laughing. He is Mark Waid, comic author and now UCLA lecturer, at least for the hour, for English 88S, “Comic Books As Literature.” On Tuesday, Waid, a veteran of over 20 years in the comic book industry and one of its premier writers, had a lot to say about the industry, the medium and the act of writing itself. Read more...


Coachella Continued

With several reporters and a photographer on the scene, the Daily Bruin fulfills its yearly duty and offers to everyone who was (all 60,000) and wasn’t there the second part of the fourth annual Coachella diary. Read more...