Thursday, April 2

On-campus bake-off heats up as students compete, taste innovative treats

Zach Martinucci named each batch of his sourdough bread after the characters in the TV show “Westworld” – Abernathy, Bernard and Maeve. Maeve – a rosemary sourdough loaf with roasted pumpkin seeds, polenta and olive oil – was one of the two breads the fourth-year anthropology student featured at “Spoon UCLA: The Great College Bake Off,” hosted by Spoon University on Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: Students tried different baked goods Tuesday at “The Great College Bake Off,” a baking competition hosted by the UCLA chapter of Spoon University in Dickson Court. (Angie Ruiz/Daily Bruin)



On the Rise: Peridot

In “On the Rise,” the Daily Bruin profiles up-and-coming musicians in Los Angeles. Though our subjects do not necessarily have direct connections with UCLA, they are artists who have brought their sounds to Los Angeles and have taken advantage of opportunities within the city’s thriving music scene. Read more...

Photo: The pop-folk band Peridot is comprised of Hillary Reynolds, Trevor Jarvis and Marton Bisits (left to right). The band released its seven-song EP in 2016. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)


Student turns closet into studio to record EP about reality of love

Rico Lomarda emerged from his apartment’s closet with a guitar in hand, having finished working on his songs for six hours straight. The musician’s closet doubles as his studio – the place where he finished recording and producing his four-song debut EP “Love or Something.” Lomarda, a third-year biochemistry student, performs under the stage name Rico Loma and released his EP “Love or Something” in January. Read more...

Photo: Third-year biochemistry student Rico Lomarda recorded his first EP in the walk-in closet of his Westwood apartment. He released the EP titled “Love or Something” in January with the student-run record label Landing 8 Records, which he helped start during his freshman year. His influences. including singers Bruno Mars and Ed Sheeran, are reflected in the EP’s first upbeat and groovy song “Breathe,” he said. (Chelsea Zhang/Daily Bruin)


Club cooks up kosher cuisine for Shabbat dinners

Thursday evenings are meal prep nights for Elisa Gurevich. Last week, the co-director of Chabad House at UCLA set a large stainless-steel bowl filled with bread dough onto a long wooden table in her family’s Westwood townhouse. Read more...

Photo: The students braided balls of dough into loaves of challah bread to prepare for the Jewish day of rest. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)


Theater review: “Actually”

Consent or rape: A play in Westwood implies it isn’t so black and white. “Actually,” a two-person play at the Geffen Playhouse, realistically depicts modern hookup culture and the difficulties of defining consent; it shows two sides of an often ambiguous situation. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Chris Whitaker)