Photo: Pasundan dancers Sekar Sosronegoro and Casey Lee, a UCLA alumna, performed a traditional Sundanese dance for the Fowler Museum audience Sunday. The Indonesian outfits have two parts: a top piece called a kebaya and a lower piece called a sarong. (Emaan Baqai/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Arts, Arts Columns, Music
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September 25, 10:25 pm
Hear This Not That: Shawn Mendes’ album rips off 2000s, Devendra Banhart’s delivers
Music fans can find it hard to decide which albums to stream and which to skip, considering the surplus of new music released. Each week, A&E columnist Sean Lee will compare two newly released albums and recommend which one students should listen to. Read more...
Photo: Eighteen-year-old Shawn Mendes released his album “Illuminate” Friday, the same day Devendra Banhart released “Ape in Pink Marble.” (Left: Courtesy of Universal Music Group, Right: Courtesy of Nonesuch Records)
Arts, Film & TV
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September 25, 10:24 pm
Movie review: ‘Queen of Katwe’
It’s difficult to make a movie unpredictable and authentic when it’s a foreign biopic in English — especially when the plot follows a girl from a developing country with dreams too big for her village. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Gage Skidmore)
Arts, Lifestyle
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September 25, 10:21 pm
Student nails it with affordable, on-campus manicure business
Courtney Scott hauled a black suitcase of nail polish into her dorm lounge. On the eighth floor of Hedrick Summit, the second-year mathematics for teaching student provides professional manicures to UCLA students under the company name Court’s Nail Army. Read more...
Photo: Second-year mathematics for teaching student Courtney Scott runs a manicure business, called Court’s Nail Army, from her dorm room. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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September 23, 10:22 am
Esteemed violin professor to perform with chamber orchestra at Royce Hall
Violin professor Movses Pogossian lives for the moments of silence at the end of a concert, the collective hush of thousands of people holding their breaths at the final bow of his string. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music violin professor Movses Pogossian will perform with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on Sunday at UCLA Royce Hall. He will play Violin Concerto No. 2, “Four Serious Songs,” by Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
Arts, Music
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September 23, 12:00 am
Graphic: Fall quarter a cappella audition locations
Photo: (William Zou/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Film & TV
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September 23, 12:00 am
TFT alum creates comedy web series based on time working as telemarketer
The scribbled notes in Adam Carr’s 6-by-4 inch blue moleskin journal read like a string of nonsense ramblings. His entries span from jokes about prank voicemails to memories of making calls while sipping wine from his coffee mug. Read more...
Photo: Alumni Adam Carr and Nathaniel Meek created a comedic web series based on working as telemarketers at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. One television-worthy moment was when Carr found out his workplace crush was a sex addict and already dating another worker of the call room. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)