Ricki Quinn was sitting in a park in Barcelona when a woman walking her chihuahua caught her eye. “She threw her arms up and yelled ‘Siéntate’ at her dog,” Quinn said. Read more...
Photo: Ten fourth-year world arts and culture students will present “footage: The 2014 Senior Project Showcase,” featuring dance, film, spoken word and multimedia combinations in eight-minute pieces. The show is a culmination of the two-quarter-long World Arts and Cultures 186 course. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)
Last year, fraternity/sorority team Zeta Beta Tau and Kappa Alpha Theta did not make it into the Spring Sing lineup. The partnership proposed a musical that poked fun at the Occupy Wall Street movement which, much to the disappointment of the show’s co-creator Ben Kurzrock, was deemed a bit too controversial. Read more...
Photo: Last year, the fraternity and sorority team of Zeta Beta Tau and Kappa Alpha Theta did not make it into the Spring Sing lineup. This year, the partnership will perform a five-minute musical that provides a broad overview of the life of UCLA’s famed coach John Wooden (The UCLA Alumni Association)
Members of Bruin Harmony, UCLA’s only all-male a cappella group, have been rehearsing two-and-a-half hours a day, three times a week, for the last few months to perfect the marriage of their song and choreography in preparation for Spring Sing 2014. Read more...
Photo: All-male a cappella group Bruin Harmony will attempt to defend its Spring Sing 2013 title of best a cappella entry and best overall entry this Friday at Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
To the students that made it through auditions in fall 2013, Darryn Wong said Resonance A Cappella was new. He said the group’s existing members could not promise them anything aside from the ability to join an upcoming group that they could call a family. Read more...
Photo: The youngest a cappella group performing at Friday’s Spring Sing, Resonance A Cappella has gone from its founding in October 2012 to performing in Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Courtesy of Resonance A Cappella)
For every major performance, UCLA’s all-female Random Voices A Capella chooses one encompassing word to focus its energy on. As the group prepares to cover an unrevealed song by the iconic Madonna for this year’s Spring Sing, its current word seems fitting: “passion.” “Random Voices has one of the lowest ranges I’ve heard in terms of all-girls groups, and this song in particular calls for a lot of power behind it,” said Sarah Summers, a second-year dance student. Read more...
Photo: Random Voices A Cappella, an all-female a cappella group, has been working on its Spring Sing 2014 performance since December, full of Madonna-inspired, edgy ’80s costumes. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
Rihanna is spotted in the front row as Cara Delevingne struts down the runway. Karl Lagerfeld directs from backstage, and I’m at home in my pajamas reading all about it in the latest issue of Vogue. Read more...
Photo: Melissa Chinn, a graduate nursing student, accessorizes with her Louis Vuitton bag. Columnist Noor Gill argues that obtaining high-fashion pieces like these are challenging but doable within a student budget. (Evaneet Sidhu/Daily Bruin)
The Daily Bruin’s very own Arts & Entertainment podcast, Paws, Play, Rewind!, returns for episode 12 with the latest and greatest in pop culture and campus happenings. Read more...
Photo: Madeleine Isaacs
