Arts, Music
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April 18, 11:10 am
Coachella 2025 Q&A: Musician Seun Kuti on the intersection between art, social justice
This post was updated April 20 at 10:20 p.m. Seun Kuti is hoping to remind audiences of the intersection between art and social justice. After not being able to take the Indio, California, stage in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigerian musician and his band Egypt 80 will perform at the second weekend of the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Read more...
Photo: Seun Kuti wears a red ensemble and squats next to a tiled wall while placing his hands on his head. Kuti is the son of Fela Kuti, a pioneer of the Afrobeat genre, and is performing at both weekends of the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. (Courtesy of Kola Oshalusi)
Arts, Arts Columns, Theater & Fine Arts
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April 17, 9:05 pm
Theater Preview: Spring is budding with musicals, revivals across Los Angeles
This post was updated April 22 at 9:33 p.m. A fresh lineup of theater productions is budding this spring. With the new season, theaters will be blossoming with lively revivals, revamped adaptations and new storylines across Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: (Yuri Mansukhani/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Arts Columns, Lifestyle
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April 17, 8:14 pm
Second Take: From reading the girls to ad reads – the rise of drag queen podcasts
The queens of podcasts are anything but a drag. Drag queen-hosted podcasts and YouTube series have quietly – and now loudly – taken over the internet. Read more...
Photo: (Yuri Mansukhani/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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April 17, 8:04 pm
Q&A: Tinlicker’s Micha Heyboer talks Coachella 2025 performance of ‘I Started A Fire’
Burning bright, Tinlicker’s newest track is heating up the Coachella Valley. “I Started A Fire,” which also features vocals by Hero Baldwin, follows the electronic and dance music duo’s 2024 album “Cold Enough For Snow.” Composed of members Jordi van Achthoven and Micha Heyboer, Tinlicker played the track at the first weekend of the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Read more...
Photo: Pictured are Jordi van Achthoven (left) and Micha Heyboer (right) from the duo Tinlicker, with Hero Baldwin in the center, leaning against a red wall. The band performed at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last weekend and will perform again for the festival’s second weekend. (Courtesy of Mees Borst)
Arts, Lifestyle
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April 17, 8:00 pm
Q&A: Poet Marylyn Tan weaves flesh and feminism, queerness and ritual into work
Through witchcraft, digital language and bodies, Marylyn Tan weaves poetry. Tan is the author of “Gaze Back,” a poetry collection described as a grimoire for queerness, feminism and witchcraft. Read more...
Photo: Photographed is Marylyn Tan posing for a headshot with a dreamy overlay filter. The poet gave a reading at UCLA on April 14. She later sat down with the Daily Bruin for a Q&A.(Courtesy of Phyllicia Wang)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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April 17, 7:47 pm
UCLA alumnus explores culture, writer’s block in ‘The Last Play by Rickérby Hinds’
UCLA alumnus and playwright Rickérby Hinds penned what he says will be his very last play. “The Last Play by Rickérby Hinds” will see its world premiere at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on April 26th. Read more...
Photo: Pictured is Rickérby Hinds sporting a black jacket and zip-up while looking at the camera. The UCLA alumnus and playwright will debut his latest play “The Last Play by Rickérby Hinds” at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on April 26. (Courtesy of CNP)