Hearing his voice surface on a real track from his new, real album was like coming up for a breath of fresh air after being submerged in water. Read more...
Photo: (Boys Don’t Cry)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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August 22, 12:17 am
M+B art gallery puts on innovative food-based exhibition
The specials on the menu at M+B art gallery include a smashed Big Mac in a plexiglass box, two ceramic sardines in a dish and a splattering of spaghetti on linen. Read more...
Photo: M+B gallery exhibit “Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish” features food-inspired works by 37 Los Angeles artists, including four created by UCLA alumni. (Courtesy of Ed Mumford)
Arts, Lifestyle
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August 22, 12:15 am
UCLA alum, chef creates unique LA Mexican cuisine
Like most students, Ray Garcia didn’t start teaching himself how to cook until he moved out of his dorm room and into an apartment. Now UCLA alumnus Garcia is the head chef at Broken Spanish, his second restaurant which he opened in June 2015 in downtown Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Ray Garcia opened Downtown Los Angeles eatery Broken Spanish, a restaurant serving up Latin cuisine. (Courtesy of Ray Garcia)
Arts, Film & TV
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August 22, 12:14 am
Movie review: ‘Sausage Party’
It takes a certain kind of twisted psyche to create an animated movie deserving of an R-rating. But leave it to Seth Rogen and his team of writers to produce a computer-generated story so unapologetically offensive that rated R is hardly an adequate warning. Read more...
Photo: “Sausage Party” pushes boundaries with its graphic and insensitive script following the lives of anthropomorphic supermarket foods. (Columbia Pictures)
Arts, Music
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August 21, 7:06 pm
Concert Review: Coldplay at the Rose Bowl
Chris Martin will never eat bananas before a concert again. While performing at the “Head Full of Dreams” tour on Saturday, Martin apologized to fans in the packed Rose Bowl stadium for his gassiness during the first three songs. Read more...
Photo: Coldplay’s “A Head Full of Dreams Concert” on Saturday night at the Rose Bowl was a spectacle of light, color and classic lively showmanship by frontman Chris Martin. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Film & TV
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August 20, 1:26 pm
Adult film star speaks to psychology class about sex, pornography
The Kinsey Pavilion 1200B chalkboard read “SEX” in big letters. Standing in front of the lecture hall full of students was adult film actress Jessica Drake, who said growing up in a conservative and religious family environment made her view sex negatively. Read more...
Photo: In a presentation to a class in Kinsey Pavilion 1200B, adult film actress Jessica Drake explained the deceptiveness of movie magic in the adult film industry. (Robert Luna Jr./Daily Bruin senior staff)
Arts, Film & TV, Theater & Fine Arts
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August 14, 11:23 pm
Students, faculty experiment with multimedia to produce ‘Live Cinema’
Ruoxuan Li flipped through Francis Ford Coppola’s photo album and found the image she was looking for. Behind the protective sleeve was an aging photo of young twin boys from the 1920s. Read more...
Photo: Film alum Mark Daniel Quintos and students worked alongside filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola to produce the experimental project. (Kelly Ma/Daily Bruin)