There’s no better place to keep a finger on the pulse of arts and entertainment happenings than Los Angeles. The A&E world is alive – it’s always buzzing, sometimes ready to implode with a hint of a surprise album or a celebrity’s controversial statement. Read more...
Photo: (Paramount Pictures, Netflix, YouTube, Jean Jullien)
Room A32 of the Humanities Building is filled with busy Bruins scribbling lecture notes during the day. By night, the chairs and tables are moved to the classroom’s outer edges and a keyboardist installs herself near the professor’s wooden lectern. Read more...
Photo: Act III Theatre Ensemble is putting on a modern rendition of William Shakespeare’s play “Loves’s Labour’s Lost.” The play, directed by fourth-year theater student Abigail Faber, will premiere Friday. (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)
In anticipation of the UCLA-USC football matchup Thanksgiving weekend, Daily Bruin A&E features members of the UCLA Bruin Marching Band. Today’s installment profiles Lauren Payne, a fourth-year political science student and the flute section leader. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year political science student Lauren Payne leads the UCLA Bruin Marching Band’s 27-member flute section. As section leader, Payne focuses on building strong bonds between flute members. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Arcade machines, intricate game pieces and a plethora of digital, multimedia and board games will inhabit the Hammer Museum on Wednesday. Among them, something bigger will be at play. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Nick Crockett’s “Sneaky Cactus” for the UCLA Game Art Festival, which uses cactus controllers. The goal of the game is to get cacti to an oasis on the other side of a screen. (Courtesy of Nick Crockett)
Katniss Everdeen is making her comeback Friday: bow and arrows in tight grip, hair in an effortless braid and unflinching spark in her eyes. “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” will provide a resolution to the rebellion against the Capitol and bring the series to an end. Read more...
Photo: “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2,” the final installment of “The Hunger Games” series film adaptations, will premiere Friday, bringing the series to an end as Katniss Everdeen and the rebels fight to end Capitol rule. (Courtesy of Murray Close)
The walls of Diana Ford’s classroom dissolve into an open field as she puts on a pair of Oculus Rift goggles. Within the artificial realm created by the Oculus Rift headset, Ford chases after a ball only to run straight into a surrounding wall in her classroom, blurring virtual reality and reality. Read more...
Photo: Computer science lecturer Diana Ford teaches game-developing as a subfield of graphics. She teaches her fall quarter class, “Advanced Game Development for Virtual Reality,” using Oculus Rift goggles and tracking devices to create immersive gaming codes and player interaction with artificial intelligence. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)
In the war zone that is the fall TV season, it’s important to pick out the gems hidden in the media mesh. Each week, A&E columnist Sebastian Torrelio will profile one new show and one returning show that share a connection, detailing how they may make those after-school hours more meaningful. Read more...
Photo: “Nathan For You” features comedian Nathan Fielder creating theatrical art by doing things no sane person would ever think of. (Comedy Central)
