Marvel Comics has seen an increase in mainstream popularity with the recent release of several box office hits, such as “The Avengers.” Since its inception in 1939, the comic book company has created thousands of characters. Read more...
Photo: Since her first appearance in the comic book series “Uncanny X-Men” in 1981, Rachel Grey has become a prominent member of the 2013 launch of the all-female “X-Men.” (Courtesy of Marvel Comics)
The actress belts out her verses with blues music playing in the background, reverberating in Schoenberg Theater with each low thunderous note. The performer sings of the horrors and ironies that infiltrated the movie industry in the early 20th century. Read more...
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This weekend, crimped side-swept hair and pastel leggings will no longer be relics of a forgotten past. Hooligan Theatre Company’s “The Wedding Singer” transports audiences to the ’80s, an era defined by the big and bold. Read more...
Photo: Hooligan Theatre Company will put on “The Wedding Singer,” a new-age rock musical set in the 1980s based off of the 1998 movie of the same name starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, Friday through Sunday at the Freud Playhouse. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
On Tuesday, dedicated fans waited for hours outside the Regency Bruin Theatre, fat raindrops pelting their heads, with hopes of seeing the season five premiere of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Campus Events Commission hosted the screening of the popular show, a television adaptation of George R. Read more...
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Music festivals can be a perfect remedy for the bored and restless, and California has one just about every weekend this season. Daily Bruin A&E looks at the most notable spring music festivals coming to California this year. Read more...
For all those who want to share their poetry or prose, The Writer’s Den Open Mic Night on April 9th was a great opportunity. Whether or not part of The Writer’s Den, this was a chance for all Bruins to show their talents on the mic. Read more...
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On a 37-hour bus ride from New York to New Orleans, Garrett Bradley held interviews with fellow passengers around her age. The conversations she had during that drive eventually culminated in her first feature film, “Below Dreams.” The UCLA alumna said she began these interviews on the Greyhound buses while on a break from school, and that at the time, she didn’t know what she was going to do with the material she acquired or that she would eventually transcribe the recordings and turn them into a film script. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Garrett Bradley used interviews she had with passengers on Greyhound buses as the material for her film “Below Dreams.” The film will be screened in select L.A. theaters from Friday to Wednesday. (Courtesy of Milena Pastreich)
