Warner Bros. Television officials announced on Wednesday “The Big Bang Theory” Scholarship Endowment, a fund to provide need-based financial aid for UCLA science, technology, engineering and mathematics students. Read more...
Photo: “The Big Bang Theory” Scholarship Endowment was funded by cast, crew and executive producers of “The Big Theory,” Chuck Lorre Family Foundation and other donors from the entertainment industry. (Warner Bros. Television)
Tucked away in the eastern corner of Culver City, the UCLA graduate art studios is a labyrinth, with every turn leading to another graduate student artist’s atelier. Read more...
Photo: UCLA graduate art students, including CJ Heyliger, will present their artworks on Saturday in Culver City for the biannual Graduate Open Studios. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Musicians cloaked in swirling blue and red robes pluck delicately at zheng zithers, string instruments that originated in China almost two thousand years ago. Continuing the Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz, Saturday’s Music of China Ensemble performance will showcase Chinese culture and heritage at Schoenberg Hall, followed by Sunday’s Irish Music Ensemble performance. Read more...
Photo: The Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz, put on by the ethnomusicology department of the Herb Alpert School of Music, will continue Saturday with a performance by the Music of China Ensemble. Members of the ensemble will play Chinese instruments such as the zheng zithers. (Courtesy of Chi Li)
Graduate students Mitsuko Brooks and Michael Salvatore prepare their art for the biannual Graduate Open Studios event this Saturday. Within studio 19, Brooks displays trash she finds after coating it in resin and placing it on wooden pedestals. Read more...
Photo: (Noor Gill/Daily Bruin)
As three Korean guys drive towards the beach, one leans out of the window with a look of childish excitement across his face. In the short film “Banana Trip,” the trio set out to try and impress some American girls while on holiday in Florida. Read more...
Photo: “Banana Trip,” written and directed by Florida State University student Hyungjik Lee, won best comedy on Thursday at the Campus Events Commission’s Shorttakes Student Film Festival. (Courtesy of Hyungjik Lee)
For Daniela Arguello, inspiration for her short film “Time” came from an unexpected place. “It was just as if a brick fell from the sky and hit me in the head, and I was like ‘Wow, I want to do this,'” said Arguello, a first-year film student. Read more...
Photo: First-year film student Daniela Arguello wrote and directed the eight-minute science fiction film, “Time,” which won Best Drama at the Shorttakes Student Film Festival. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
After I didn’t know what to expect from 2011’s release of The Vaccine’s first studio album, “What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?,” I formed high expectations that were prematurely disappointed by the band’s 2012 sophomore album, “Come Of Age.” With “English Graffiti,” The Vaccines paint a bright future for itself but left me with mixed feelings. Read more...
Photo: (Columbia Music)
