Dorothy Dubrule, Julio Medina and Luis Tentindo came to UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance a year and a half ago as master candidates. Over the past six months they have met every couple of weeks to offer each other advice on their pieces for the MFA2 dance show. Read more...
Photo: The MFA2 dance concert titled “What” is choreographed by world arts and cultures graduate students Julio Medina (left), Luis Tentindo (center) and Dorothy Dubrule (right). (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
It was 11 p.m. on a Friday night, but the lights in Ackerman Union 2408 were still on. Fourteen students gathered together and chanted the Bard’s lines. Read more...
Photo: “Henry IV, Part I,” put on by the Shakespeare Company at UCLA and UCLA Residential Life, will star fourth-year English student Neda Dallal (left) and third-year theater student Ian Runge (right). The play will take place Friday and Saturday in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. (Max Himmelrich/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: “CORPA” by Michel Fiffe is an alternative comic that derives from the 1980s superhero series, “Suicide Squad.” (Courtesy of Michel Fiffe)
A banana peel, a space shuttle at liftoff and a Hawaiian beach. Over and over, the projected images change, seeming to have no relation to one another. Read more...
Photo: Design | Media Arts graduate student Adam Ferriss will present his solo exhibition, “a wall with several poster painted on it.” at the Broad Art Center on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ferriss, a self-proclaimed software artist, designed his feedback loop after coding for at least two hours a day for more than a month. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
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)
