Sunday, April 19

UCLA student competes at Orientation LA

After winning his first DJ battle last week, UCLA trap spinster Alejandro “Alexbustamove” Bustamante prepares to battle it out with fresh opponents at Orientation LA. Read more...

Photo: Alejandro Bustamante, a fourth-year Design | Media Arts student who DJs as Alexbustamove, will battle against students from USC and LMU before acts such as Flosstradamus and gLadiator perform at Orientation LA.


LCC Theatre Group show to deliver slapstick comedy

Sometimes the remedy for the winter blues is a big dose of comedy. The UCLA student theater group Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company has the cure with its new show, “Actors, Vampires & Other Cold-Blooded Creatures.” The show will run for two days and will feature different scenes connected by a common theme with rounds of improv in between. Read more...

Photo: Third-year physiological science student Ivy Dang, second-year economics student Omar Nazarkhan and second-year sociology student Brian Trinh practice their improv to prepare for Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company’s new production “Actors, Vampires & Other Cold-Blooded Creatures.”


UCLA startup VineLust helps cultivate wine preferences

The golden age of the algorithm is now. As Netflix’s personalized video recommendation algorithm catalyzed mass online film distribution and Pandora Radio’s music recommendation algorithm redesigned the way people find new music, so is VineLust’s taste algorithm pioneering the way wine will be recommended and distributed. Read more...

Photo: Graduate student Pallavi Patil founded VineLust, a wine e-commerce startup that aims to help people explore wines using an algorithm.


Video Production Crew draws fresh talent with training focus

To make it big in the multibillion-dollar film industry, sometimes it’s best to start small. UCLA’s Video Production Crew is a student-led organization that produces short films. Read more...

Photo: From left: First-year psychobiology student Elaine Lin, first-year undeclared student Alexander DeKoning and fourth-year linguistics student Julio Vega work on a shoot for UCLA’s Video Production Crew. Their project for winter quarter will be the group’s first thriller, filmed at Lucia’s Cafe in Westwood. In the film, a man brings a suitcase into a diner and tells a waitress there is a bomb inside.