Wednesday, April 1

Dance grad students tap into personal histories in performance ‘TOUCH’

Majorettes chant “B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E” as they breathe heavily and fling their limbs around their bodies. In Friday and Saturday’s dance performance “TOUCH” at the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, two students will present dance pieces created during their three years in UCLA’s graduate dance program. Read more...

Photo: In UCLA graduate student Bernard Brown’s dance piece MotherEarth, dancers pay homage to women by portraying mothers and daughters while rolling on the ground, pirouetting and extending their legs. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)


Cents of Style: Crossroads Trading Co. disappoints with generic options, sterile atmosphere

Wedged in between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, UCLA students have no shortage of places to shop for clothes. However, high price tags can limit shopping options for money-conscious students on a college budget. Read more...

Photo: Daily Bruin columnist Linda Xu wears a black dress ($7.50) tucked into a gray tube skirt ($6.75), which she bought from the thrift store Crossroads Trading Co. in Santa Monica. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)


Brown and Bothered: Henna appropriation cherry-picks beauty while ignoring people, culture

Obvious reasons to avoid cultural appropriation – it involves stealing what is considered the beautiful aspects of another culture without respect for the tradition from which it originates and ignores the racism and xenophobia the creators of these items face. Read more...

Photo: A South Asian student wears henna on Bruin Walk. Henna is worn traditionally during special events like weddings and religious ceremonies in South Asian culture. (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)


UCLA marching band records music for new show ‘Imaginary Mary’

A charter bus with 20 members of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band cruised down Sunset Boulevard and stopped in front of United Recording Studios in October. Read more...

Photo: UCLA Bruin Marching Band members Brendan James (left), Christina Martin (center) and Patrick Chesnut (right) were three instrumentalists who recorded in October for the television show “Imaginary Mary.” (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)


Theater student sinks her teeth into gory special effects makeup

Amber Li sat in Elysee Bakery & Cafe and apologized for picking such a “bougie” place to meet. When most people talk about mangled limbs and severed heads made from gelatin, it’s probably not usually over overpriced coffee and pastries. Read more...

Photo: Amber Li, a second-year theater student, taught herself how to apply special effects makeup through YouTube tutorials and instructional books online. She hopes to eventually become a professional special effects makeup artist for films. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)


HBO brings popular series to life at UCLA with themed escape rooms

A secret service agent stood at the front of the door to the Oval Office, explaining to a group of students that they would only have five minutes to escape the room – or else fail. Read more...

Photo: The Oval Office-themed “Veep” room of the three-part escape room hosted by HBO at the John Wooden Center on Monday featured an exploding ballot box. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Students’ commercial places second in Coca-Cola, Regal Films’ contest

Coming soon to a theater near you: a hungry hacker trying to steal your popcorn. Cinematography graduate student Xinzhong “Golden” Zhao directed a 30-second commercial to promote the movie-going experience and became a finalist for Coca-Cola and Regal Films’ commercial contest. Read more...

Photo: Cinematography graduate student Xinzhong “Golden” Zhao directed a commercial that placed second in a contest hosted by Regal Cinemas and Coca-Cola. In the ad, a hacker reaches out of a movie screen and grabs some buttery popcorn from a moviegoer. UCLA students filmed the commercial in Regal La Habra Stadium 16 in January. (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)