The second story I wrote for the Daily Bruin was about Elliott Smith, so it seems only fitting that the second Throwback Thursday column be about one of the most emotive and honest singer-songwriters of the last few decades. Read more...
Photo: Brendan Hornbostel first wrote a story on singer-songwriter Elliot Smith when a community group restored this Elliot Smith Mural; this Thursday, he explores the artist.
Emmy Award-winning director Henry Chan has teamed up with UCLA screenwriting professor Weiko Lin on their first Chinese language feature film. “100 Days” tells the story of a young man who must appease his deceased mother’s spirit by finding love within 100 days after her death. Read more...
Photo: Emmy Award-winning director Henry Chan teamed up with UCLA professor Weiko Lin for their film, “100 Days.”
UCLA’s The Street Hearts wowed the crowd at Spring Sing earlier this year with its harmonic vocals and acoustic sound, even garnering the crowd-selected “Bruin Choice Award.” Composed of second-year dance student Sarah Summers, third-year cognitive science student Nick Valentini, third-year history and English student Andrew Giurgius and third-year civil engineering student Nicholai Hansen, the band won the Battle of the Bands, earning it a chance to play at the 2013 UCLA JazzReggae Festival. Read more...
Photo: The Street Hearts are preparing to play at The Roxy in West Hollywood on Friday.
UCLA screenwriting professor Weiko Lin has transformed a sorrowful event from his past into a global story about reconnection and rediscovery that will soon hit the big screen as a feature film. Read more...
Photo: UCLA screenwriting professor Weiko Lin worked with Emmy Award-winning director Henry Chan to produce their first Chinese language film, “100 Days.”
At the happiest place on Earth, it’s a wonder how anyone could be anything besides elated beyond reason. That alone is enough purpose to drive “Escape from Tomorrow,” a film that has been claimed, on multiple occasions, “shouldn’t exist.” It’s a fair declaration – “Escape from Tomorrow” was shot entirely within and around the grounds of Disneyland and Disney World without the express knowledge or permission of the Walt Disney Company. Read more...
Beginning in early February of next year, the Hammer Museum will offer free admission to the public. The Hammer Museum, operated by UCLA, currently offers certain programs and lectures for free. Read more...
Photo: The Hammer Museum announced it will implement free admission to the general public beginning in February.
For the trend-inclined, 2013's musical landscape has been remarkably and consistently linked by transgression – all our favorite pop stars are, as Drake so lucidly whined, on their "worst behavior." Read more...
