Warning: spoilers ahead. Seventeen minutes can be an eternity. In the final season of “Bojack Horseman,” the second half of which premiered Jan. 31, the titular character is continually haunted by this reminder. Read more...
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Jailah Johnson practiced the art of braiding on herself before sharing her skills with others. Frustrated by the lack of accessibility for black beauty supplies, the third-year sociology and African American studies student started her business to share her services and make those products more obtainable. Read more...
Photo: Third-year sociology and African American studies student, Jailah Johnson started her hairstyling business to share her services and make black beauty supplies more accessible. Johnson is scheduled to meet 32 clients within the next month, providing hair products to each appointment, so women don’t have to go out of their way to purchase extra supplies. She aims to cater to individual hair textures and desires. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin)
Family-owned businesses in Park City reflect on the impacts of the film festival. Read more...
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein set out to document their friendship. What followed was “The Nowhere Inn,” which premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25 and creates a metafictional account of Brownstein and St. Read more...
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 10:03 a.m. “La Leyenda Negra” grapples with colonial legacies new and old. Written and directed by alumna Patricia Vidal Delgado, the black and white film follows Aleteia, an immigrant from El Salvador who joins an underground anarchist group at Compton High School. Read more...
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UCLA psychologist Harold Garfinkel began a case study on Agnes in the 1950s. Agnes would go on to become the central figure in one of the first sociological conversations surrounding the transgender community. Read more...
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Shirley Jackson is now known as one of the great horror writers of the 20th century – but the author was overlooked during her lifetime. Now, director Josephine Decker brings the writer to the screen in “Shirley,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. Read more...
Photo: The cast and crew of “Shirley” attended the film’s premiere at Sundance. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
