Abel Tesfaye, also known as the The Weeknd, is back after casually redefining pop music in one fell swoop. Tesfaye’s second full-length album, “Beauty Behind the Madness,” combines ’80s vibes with lecherous lyrics, creating a modern version of pop to be consumed by the masses. Read more...
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Landowners and city officials commissioned nine-year-old Malathi Iyengar to decorate the entryways of the temples and festival halls in Bangalore, India with bright patterns made of colored flour, grains of rice and flower petals. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Malathi Iyengar is the founder and artistic director of the Rangoli Dance Company, a school of Indian culture and the South Indian classical dance called Bharatanatyam. Rangoli performed at the Fowler Museum Sunday. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Nate Schwartz is a certified audio engineer at Melnitz Hall, a member of multiple bands including UCLA’s Loop Garou, and a composer of film scores. But in 2014, he decided to take on another endeavor: start his own jazz orchestra. Read more...
Photo: Nate Schwartz, a rising third-year ethnomusicology student, formed his own orchestra, the Nate Schwartz & His Jazz Orchestra and launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of its debut album. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
Thousands of red-lipped fans entered the stadium. Hundreds lined up at the box office, hoping to be in the audience. Inside the Staples Center, a banner that read “Taylor Swift most sold out performances” hung beside the Los Angeles Lakers’ championship banners. Read more...
Photo: Pop star Taylor Swift performed “New Romantics” while supported by a crew of backup dancers at Staples Center Monday as part of her 1989 World Tour in Los Angeles. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin senior staff)
For the second year in a row, Los Angeles’ Exposition Park played host to FYF Fest for two days of eclectic beat-making and expensive food-trucking. With a sprinkling of every genre from noise rock to hardcore hip-hop to dance-funk to anything that might remotely fit in between, Saturday and Sunday demonstrated modern-day American music culture at its most multifaceted, though also at its most uncomfortably disconnected. Read more...
Photo: At the Main Stage, solo act Toro y Moi brought funk and dance vibes to the crowd Sunday. (Courtesy of Kelsey Heng)
Austin Beutner grew up in a small town in the Midwest, where he said food trucks have yet to hit the culinary scene. Unlike in his homeland, the food landscape of sunny Los Angeles has allowed food trucks to flourish due to the efforts of entrepreneurs like Kogi BBQ truck co-founder Roy Choi. Read more...
Photo: Austin Beutner is a self-described avid reader as well as the CEO and publisher of the Los Angeles Times. (Courtesy of Kirk Mckoy)
The only solution that Michael Bay’s film “Armageddon” offers, as an asteroid the size of Texas hurtles towards the Earth, is to send Bruce Willis into space with a massive bomb to split the asteroid and save the world. Read more...
Photo: About 65 UCLA professors contribute to The Science and Entertainment Exchange, an organization aiming to improve scientific accuracy in films. Former UCLA postdoctoral scholar Kevin Hickerson believes that detailed films like “Interstellar” have helped to improve scientific accurary in films. (Paramount Pictures)
