Tuesday, July 7

Arts

Arts, Film & TV

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March 19, 9:40 pm

Q&A: Alumna explores police brutality, race relations in TV show ‘Shots Fired’

After the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, Fox approached Gina Prince-Bythewood to create a fictional television series about police brutality. Prince-Bythewood felt a responsibility to address the sensitive topic after the black teenager’s death at the hands of a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumna Gina Prince-Bythewood and her husband Reggie Rock Bythewood co-created, co-directed, co-wrote and co-executive produced “Shots Fired,” a television series about police brutality. (Courtesy of Frank Micelotta/FOX)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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March 19, 9:31 pm

Written on the Walls: Los Angeles street art illustrates history of political resistance

Political street art has become an outlet for advocacy among Los Angeles artists after the presidential election. Street art has a long history in the city’s urban culture; several LA streets feature murals with messages. Read more...

Photo: The “Not Our President” mural is painted on the front entrance of The Smell, a music venue in downtown Los Angeles. Owner Jim Smith commissioned artist Sean Solomon to create the design, which Solomon completed in November. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)

Arts, Lifestyle

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March 19, 9:31 pm

Piercings nose their way into mainstream fashion as a form of self-expression

Valeria Morales entered a shop on the Venice boardwalk to get her septum pierced and thought, “Why not?” The first-year statistics student already had 10 piercings, including two cartilage piercings and a belly button piercing. Read more...

Photo: First-year environmental science student Keely Watland has 10 piercings. She said her family has many piercings with bone and wooden jewelry due in part to their Pacific Islander culture. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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March 16, 4:26 pm

Students to tell stories of incarcerated people via modernized ‘The Wiz’

Hip-hop theater performance “What It Iz!” is like a modern-day version of Shakespeare for Ayanna McKnight. “Spoken word and poetry, in and of itself, go together,” said the third-year theater student. Read more...

Photo: Student actors explored themes of racial injustice and the incarceration system when preparing for the spokenwordical “What It Iz!” (Frank To/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Film & TV

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March 15, 9:38 pm

Movie review: ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Remakes can’t win. Either they aren’t faithful enough to their source material or they are redundant rehashes. Disney’s latest live-action remake, “Beauty and the Beast” brings the tale as old as time to life with special effects and more developed character backstories. Read more...

Photo: (Walt Disney Studios)

Arts, Film & TV, Music

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March 15, 9:37 pm

Second Take: The new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ lacks beauty in its beats

Disney is as renowned for its timeless music as for its enchanting animation. Unfortunately, the music of Disney’s reboot of “Beauty and the Beast” verges more toward beastly than beautiful. Read more...

Photo: The 2017 live-action reboot of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” features heavily Auto-Tuned singing by Emma Watson and two versions of the soundtrack’s titular song. (Walt Disney Records)


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