T.K. Pillan was on the hunt for convenient plant-based food when he came up with the idea for Veggie Grill. The UCLA alumnus co-founded the entirely plant-based restaurant in 2006, when films about unhealthy foods such as “Fast Food Nation” and “Super Size Me” started to grow in popularity, Pillan said. Read more...
Photo: T.K. Pillan, a UCLA alumnus, co-founded Veggie Grill to offer healthy fast food options. (MacKenzie Coffman/Assistant Photo editor)
Los Angeles is supposed to be the City of Stars, but once those stars fade, where do they go? Do they stay behind, forever attached to their final location, spooking guests who dare to enter their domain? Read more...
Photo: The Sam Merrill Trail in Altadena falls within the forest around Cobb Estate, a popular squatting location for criminals in the 1950s. Due to the noises and lights emitted by lawbreakers hiding in the area, many thought the surrounding forest to be haunted. Today, the hiking trail offers views of Los Angeles and serene nature sounds. (Jacob Preal/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Ashley Phelps and her siblings were not allowed to eat anything unhealthy growing up. She would go to birthday parties but could never eat the cakes, owing to the fact that they contained artificial dyes. Read more...
Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Theresa Enriquez transformed a farmhouse into a coffee shop. The alumna and owner of Heritage Coffee in Oxnard, California, runs the business with her husband and sons, hoping the store will reflect its location in Ventura County. Read more...
Photo: (Rachel Bai/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Oct. 11 at 6:26 p.m. Jo Ann Callis doesn’t produce images of everyday life. Instead, she said her photographs depict a state of mind, creating a metaphor for feelings. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna and California Institute of the Arts professor Jo Ann Callis said she constructs shots that express either anxiety or playful sensuality. As she does with many of her works, Callis infuses tension in her photo “Man on Bed with Crumbs.” (Courtesy of Jo Ann Callis/ROSEGALLERY)
Women are moving their creativity beyond pen and paper to discuss places for marginalized groups in storytelling within male-dominated fields. Jointly hosted by CalArts, the UCLA Animation Workshop and Women in Animation – and organized by leadership from USC, CalArts and UCLA – the three-day symposium “Breaking The Glass Frame: Women & Animation Past, Present, Future” gave attendees a chance to reflect on the current state of the creative world through a series of panels discussing diversity in animation. Read more...
Photo: Panelists at “Breaking The Glass Frame: Women & Animation Past, Present, Future” discussed strategies for encouraging more women and other underrepresented groups to pursue careers in animation. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
“Do record stores even exist anymore?” joked Emmylou Harris with her crowd at Royce Hall. The Grammy award-winning artist and the Recording Academy’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner reminisced about music consumption in the older days, saying that today, one can find her songs in the ether – referring to streaming services, most likely. Read more...
Photo: Country musician Emmylou Harris, a 13-time Grammy award winner, performed at Royce Hall on Thursday night with the Red Dirt Boys. Some dated songs from her set list were polished for the modern stage, she said. (Courtesy of Reed Hutchinson)
