To highlight the delicious perks of her vegan lifestyle, Daily Bruin staffer Alejandra Reyes-Velarde showcases 10 diverse vegan restaurants in the West Los Angeles area. She will be joined by Daily Bruin staffer William Thorne to bring a meat-eating perspective to vegan cuisine. Read more...
Photo: Fruit Gallery on the Venice Beach Boardwalk sells three raw vegan options: burritos, spaghetti and crepes. (Alejandra Reyes/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Listening to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros brings to mind thoughts of home. Many listeners received their introduction to the band with the 2010 commercial hit and rustic anthem, “Home.” From then on, the Magnetic Zeros established an image of campy charm thanks to its infectious whistling tunes with sing-along choruses galore. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Community Music Group)
A casual party conversation caught Kate Hollenbach off guard. “So what are you doing at this party? You obviously aren’t in computer science.” Hollenbach not only hosted the party but also has a computer science degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – but that’s not the point. Read more...
Photo: Design | Media Arts graduate students Alice Jung, Yuehao Jiang, Amanda Stojanov and hsinyu lin (left to right) are four of six voidLab members that created a poster exhibition in Broad. (Lindsay Weinberg/Daily Bruin senior staff)
The jungles that people experience nowadays are made of concrete. More time is spent climbing the corporate ladder than trees, and the world’s most famous tigers play golf and advertise corn flakes. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Disney)
Editor’s Note: This segment is inspired by the podcast Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, which invites listeners to “reflect on their own lives, to connect with who they used to be, and to draw a line that connects the past and the present”. Read more...
Photo: Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin
UCLA ethnomusicology students from the 1920s to the 1950s could only study foreign instruments in textbooks before the arrival of the Javanese gamelan. In 1958, American ethnomusicologist Mantle Hood purchased the Venerable Dark Cloud gamelan, a collection of 83 percussion instruments. Read more...
Photo: Otto Stuparitz is an ethnomusicology graduate student who is studying Indonesian music. Stuparitz said the World Music Center at UCLA is planning a Javanese gamelan performance scheduled tentatively for fall or winter quarter of the 2016-2017 academic year. (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)
In a short poem, Diamond penned that love is like a bullet wound that is barely healing. The teenage boy did not intend to write about love in the context of violence; it was an organic thought. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students, including third-year linguistics student Jessica Saisi (above), wrote responses to the poetry and prose submitted by incarcerated youth at Camp Fred Miller for the display “Write Back” Thursday night in Kerckhoff Art Gallery. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)
