In the mid 1970s, Alice Munro’s short stories had to travel more than 200 miles across Ontario from rural Wingham to Toronto to get published. But for Mona Simpson – a UC Berkeley undergraduate at the time – the stories weren’t traveling far enough. Read more...
Photo: (Shelby Chan/Daily Bruin)
When a campus-wide email posting called for French teaching assistants, Adrien Forney thought the position would be a perfect fit. With a life lived mainly within the confines of Perloff Hall’s architectural studio, he needed a job that would help pay the rent as well as complement his workload as a second-year architecture graduate student. Read more...
Photo: Graduate architectural student Adrien Forney picked up his position as a French teaching assistant after he answered a campus-wide email posting. Forney’s experience with the language stems from conversations with his mother, who is from France, and his time at Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
On her way to watch The Memories perform at The Smell in downtown Los Angeles, fourth-year English and fine art student Ariel Kusby popped into The Last Bookstore and was stopped at the store’s bag check area. Read more...
Photo: Founded by fourth-year English and fine art student Ariel Kusby (far left), “Nothing New” is an undergraduate experimental zine, or a self-published short magazine, that features works such as poetry, writing, prose and essays by members of the UCLA community and around the world. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)
In 2013, rapper Nipsey Hussle released a mixtape named after the neighborhood in Los Angeles where he grew up: “Crenshaw.” Nipsey Hussle and other hip-hop artists, such as Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg, who are from Los Angeles, and E-40, who is from the Bay Area, all show appreciation for their roots in their music. Read more...
Photo: As part of Hip Hop Appreciation Month, the “LOcaliTY” Fashion Show will feature designers from Los Angeles and the Bay Area on Thursday in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
They call themselves the “Vagina Warriors” – a group of UCLA students who gather in the Residential Life office on Wednesday nights. The meetings are for UCLA’s fifth annual production of “The Vagina Monologues,” which will run Thursday to Saturday in the Northwest Campus Auditorium on the Hill. Read more...
Photo: The cast of “The Vagina Monologues” practices a group scene during its dress rehearsal in preparation for the upcoming performance on Thursday. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
The buzuq twangs, the tapan beats and Sevi Bayraktar lets out a joyous zilgit that pierces the air. The zilgit, a shrill Kurdish cry, expresses the feelings of the female dancers of Asia Minor. Read more...
Photo: Sevi Bayraktar (left), a graduate student in world arts and culture/dance and choreographer, Anna Kouchnerov (center), a second-year music performance student, and Merima Tricic (right), a third-year political science and world arts and cultures student, practice for their “Dancing Asia Minor” piece. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: In Matt Fraction’s and David Aja’s “Hawkeye,” facets of Hawkeye’s past are revealed over time. (Courtesy of Matt Fraction and David Aja)
