Ireland is full of surprises, and columnist Andrew Bain stumbled across a musical one in Cork. Read more...
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Don’t let their youth fool you, members of Waking Up Sunday play their electronic jazz jams with the skill and maturity of veteran musicians.
Creating a video of people playing a piano with another person's head is a far cry from UCLA alumnus Tejpal Ajji's original intention of becoming an ancient Greek art historian. When he was a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, Ajji started making videos in a sculpture class and got hooked on video making. Read more...
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Exhibit creator Tejpal Ajji said that in choosing locations for his videos, he went with places that stood out in his memory.
Since the synth-pop band Shiny Toy Guns formed in 2002, shifts in their musical style and changes in their vocalists have created a split group of fans. Read more...
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Five Seven Music
To create a jazz opera, combine one dead soldier, a 7-part jazz ensemble and 18 stanzas of World War I poetry under a cobweb tent; allow improvisation to follow. Read more...
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Created by several UCLA alumni, the jazz opera “Strange Fellowe” combines acting, improvisational jazz and poetry to form an unconventional musical performance.
Raised in a bicultural household with a Venezuelan physician as a father who brought pictures of dead bodies found in swamps to the dinner table and a mother who got her master's degree in statistics, Christine Suarez pursued an unanticipated career. Read more...
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UCLA alumna Christine Suarez created her own theater production “Mother.Fucker.” in which she evaluates her role as both a mother and a dancer.
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When the show "Chuck" came to an end earlier this year, I had many friends who were quite upset. Read more...
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Ty Burrell, who plays Phil Dunphy in ABC’s sitcom “Modern Family,” exhibits on-screen humor that doesn’t stray too far from his own off-screen personality. (credit: Peter “Hopper” Stone/ABC)
In the southeastern region of UCLA near the David Geffen School of Medicine is a place where it's possible for one to get lost in the sounds of wind passing through trees, squirrels playfully running and climbing, turtles waltzing in a pond. Read more...
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James Eagle, a fifth-year religious studies student, has been producing music for six years and made a soundtrack inspired by the botanical gardens on campus. This is his first full, completed body of work and also the first work he is sharing with others.
