Sunday, April 5

Pop-up exhibit showcases UCLA research on representation in Hollywood

Students crowded around a mysterious Space Age box with neon lights and sharp angular edges. The strange futuristic shape stood out against UCLA’s brick architecture, attracting students on their daily walks to class. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Michael Tran helped research the 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report with sociology professor Darnell Hunt. The report’s findings were displayed in a pop-up exhibit, which has been moving around campus. (Shelby Scoggins/Daily Bruin)


UCLA music students perform Armenian pieces in Yerevan, lauded by natives

The audience paused for a brief moment before rising to its feet in a standing ovation for the musicians of VEM Quartet and their mezzo-soprano, Danielle Bayne. Read more...

Photo: UCLA graduate musicians performed a piece by Tigran Mansurian (middle), an Armenian classical composer, on a trip to Armenia. They performed for audiences at the Komitas Museum and Komitas Chamber Music Hall in the capital city of Yerevan. (Courtesy of Movses Pogossian)


App startup rewards gamers with discounts for Westwood restaurants

Twelve hundred students trudging on the floor of Pauley Pavilion for Dance Marathon took breaks for meals. An app startup called PlayFull had arranged the catering for the five meals served throughout the day and night. Read more...

Photo: PlayFull is an app run by a group of UCLA students and alumni in which users play games and win points to exchange for discounted food from Westwood restaurants. (Jennifer Hu/Daily Bruin)



Producer shares insider experience at on-campus “Top Gun” screening

Applause from every seat echoed off the walls of the Billy Wilder Theater as the names in the opening credits of “Top Gun” appeared on the big screen. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Paramount Pictures hosted The Heat is On: A Jerry Bruckheimer Film Festival in honor of the producer who worked on films such as “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” and “Crimson Tide.” The festival, held at the Billy Wilder Theater throughout April, will showcase 10 films that spanned Bruckheimer’s career. (Christi Carras/Daily Bruin contributor)


Family, theater go hand in hand for UCLA alumna’s starring role

Three-year-old Alison Elliott sat in her car singing the haunting lines of Ophelia in “Hamlet”. By the time she was 4, Elliott’s parents had to pretend she was a theatrical understudy and create fake five-minute rehearsals to indulge her yearning to be on stage. Read more...

Photo: Alumna Alison Elliott is currently starring in “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” a play that premiered Saturday in Pasadena. Elliott performs alongside her mother, father and younger brother, and said her close relationship with her family allowed her to get past the strange relationships the characters experience in the play. (Courtesy of Craig Shwartz)


Vegan Ventures: Sage Organic Vegan Bistro

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: (Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin senior staff)