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Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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April 28, 12:00 am

Students showcase originality, freshman talent in musical theater

An actress and a composer hatched a plan within the confines of a storage closet for offstage actors during UCLA’s production of “The Trojan Women.” Backstage of yet another show selected for the pair by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Lauren Henning and Mina Bloom decided they were no longer content to perform music written and chosen by someone else. Read more...

Photo: Dually Noted, co-founded by third-year theater student Mina Bloom (center left), aims to showcase individual scripts, lyrics and compositions of UCLA students, as opposed to broadway musicals. The group will perform for the first time Saturday at the Improv Space. (Julie Hanash/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Lifestyle

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April 28, 12:00 am

Creative kidnapping story spurs Snapchat fame

A Snapchat story depicted two students in De Neve Gardenia being kidnapped during finals week of winter quarter. Improvised as a sequence of 10-second Snapchat stories, the fictional narrative of the two students compelled followers of the UCLA campus Snapchat story to drag down the refresh button and find out what would happen next. Read more...

Photo: Third-year psychology student Patrick Hernandez-Ball has been featured in about 40 different UCLA campus Snapchat stories. He uses Snapchat as a medium to express himself, rapping and spreading comedic messages about college life to students. (Mischa Rajendiran/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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April 28, 12:00 am

Bruin Consent Coalition aims to empower through self-care art

Ishani Patel reached into her backpack to dig for a pen at the beginning of her Classics 42: “Cinema and the Ancient World” course. Instead, her fingers clasped the smooth, glassy surface of the small stone she carried everywhere. Read more...

Photo: Ishani Patel, a fifth-year classical civilizations student and co-director of Bruin Consent Coalition, is one of the hosts of “I Can, We Can: Self-Care Through Trauma.” The event aims to help survivors of trauma and the rest of the community create physical reminders, called touchstones, of their own self-worth. Here, Patel holds her own touchstones. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Music

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April 27, 3:16 pm

Album review: ‘Home’

The music of rock band Blue October gives an in-depth look into lead singer Justin Furstenfeld’s life of substance abuse, divorce, child custody battles, sobriety and recovery. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Up Down Records)

Arts

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April 27, 12:00 am

Love | Hate: Can ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ still pack a punch?

The unmistakable theme song to “The Powerpuff Girls” filled many homes from 1998 to 2005 as fans around the world tuned in to watch Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup fight crime and the forces of evil. Read more...

Photo: Over a decade after the last episode of Cartoon Network’s “The Powerpuff Girls,” Bubbles (left), Blossom (center) and Buttercup are set for a 2016 reboot and have undergone a modernized revamp. (Courtesy of Cartoon Network)

Arts, Lifestyle

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April 27, 12:00 am

The Brunch Club: Salt’s Cure

The starter pack of an urban chic restaurant includes cement floors, pipe decor, modern white chairs, silver-wired lamps and mason jars. The interior design of Salt’s Cure fits the city warehouse theme, but its food is rustic country all the way. Read more...

Photo: The popular 2x2x2 meal at Salt’s Cure in Hollywood is made of up two sausage, two pieces of bacon, two eggs and a biscuit with jam. The thick, soft strips of bacon were impressive and resembled slices of pork ribs in texture and flavor. (Miriam Bribiesca/Assistant Photo Editor)


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