Wednesday, February 4

College Night at LACMA to connect students to artworks

As the sun sets over Los Angeles and the city lights flicker on, most museums are closing their doors for the night. On Thursday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will do just the opposite, as it invites 1,800 students after hours to what education coordinator Amber Smith describes as the buzzing atmosphere of College Night. Read more...

Photo: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host its annual College Night on Thursday. LACMA will invite 1,800 students for free access to exhibitions, food and workshops. (Courtesy of Erin Yokomizo)


Balloon & Panel: Online self-publishing companies offer new ways to fund projects

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: Tom Siddell’s “Gunnerkrigg Court” is a webcomic that follows friends Kat and Annie studying magic in a boarding school in England. (Courtesy of Tom Siddell)


Spoken word event ‘The Ghost Writer Confessions’ reveals student secrets

The anonymously submitted secret that second-year undeclared student and poet Lydia Janbay chose to write about is one she could personally connect with. Janbay is one of seven UCLA students who will perform spoken word revolving around anonymous secrets submitted by fellow students Wednesday at Royce Hall Terrace in “The Ghost Writer Confessions.” The event is hosted by the Student Committee for the Arts at UCLA and will precede PostSecret creator Frank Warren’s “PostSecret Live” event at Royce Hall. Read more...

Photo: (Victoria Chang/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Hammer Museum, PBS SoCal event to speak up for endangered languages

For one night, the hum of an Aboriginal didgeridoo, the Hawaiian chants of hula dancers and poetry ranging from Wales to Mexico will join together and render an array of culture, heritage and knowledge housed within the fading edifice of the endangered tongue. Read more...

Photo: Co-presented by the Hammer Museum and PBS SoCal, “Endangered Languages” works toward revealing and celebrating languages that are disappearing worldwide. In addition to showing footage from the documentary “Language Matters with Bob Holman,” the event will feature performers and speakers, including the Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodriguez. (Hammer Museum)



Stand-up group BoyBand brings weekly laughs to The Improv Space

Nathan Mosher performs stand-up comedy "Improve Space_Nathan_Clips". Released: 2015. "Nathan Mosher performs stand-up comedy"
UCLA student Austin Nasso peforms at the Improv Space "austin". "UCLA student Austin Nasso peforms at the Improv Space"

After Richie Rosales, member of the stand-up group BoyBand, performed a joke, a man in the audience stormed out. He did so exclaiming, “That was too funny. Read more...

Photo: Founded by second-year English student Nathan Mosher, BoyBand is The Improv Space’s first weekly stand-up comedy performing every Thursday night. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)


Comics see progressive trend in including more female writers, characters

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: “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” is the first edition of the Squirrel Girl franchise that centers around its title character. (Courtesy of Ryan North and Erica Henderson)



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