Monday, July 13

In the news:

Calendar: Music

Estradosphere 14 Below Nov. 1 Rock ‘n’ roll buried under violins, trumpets, saxophones and banjos, and smothered in jazz, metal, Nintendo music and bluegrass. In a word, experimental. Read more...




A Peaceful Aim

With clasped hands and sandalled feet, two young girls stroll down a dusty road in the West Bank. Their shadow looks like one person, and their eyes squint to avoid the sun as a truck trails behind them. Read more...


UCLA musicologists sing a different tune

Jacqueline Warwick is just one example of a pioneering musicologist from UCLA. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2002 after writing a dissertation on the connection between popular music in the 1960s and the female identity. Read more...


Landscape architecture students showcase new ideas

Recent landscape architecture graduate Claire Touze-Shawaf has visions of a children’s park near LAX without any metal monkey bars or slides. Her model involves a miniature Stonehenge that helps kids spot certain stars, and grass mazes just tall enough for small children to completely submerge. Read more...