It was normal to live without a kitchen in early 20th-century Manhattan. Architect Anna Puigjaner uses her research on housing trends, such as the perception of kitchens in Manhattan, to understand how society came to define the home. Read more...
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February 28, 10:42 pm
Play ‘Once on This Island’ to feature Caribbean culture, lessons on empathy
Stories can be passed around a campfire, be told across generations and unite communities, said Irvin Mason Jr. It was this notion that led him to direct the musical “Once on This Island.” Based on a 1985 novel by Rosa Guy, the story takes place in the Caribbean Islands and follows Ti Moune, a girl who falls in love with a Frenchman of higher social standing. Read more...
Photo: Color Box Production Company will put on a production of “Once on This Island,” premiering Saturday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium. The play follows a girl who falls in love with a Frenchman of a higher social standing and focuses on Caribbean traditions. (Courtesy of Irvin Mason Jr.)
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February 28, 4:56 pm
Theater review: Webber’s ‘Cats’ displays visual excellence mired in plot confusion
It’s pitch black. Not a sound can be heard when flickering lights suddenly illuminate the historical Hollywood Pantages Theatre. The mysterious dots grow across the auditorium. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Matthew Murphy)
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February 26, 9:42 pm
Kitchen setting in play serves to replicate tension during post-World War II
Fried fish and post-World War II cultures will collide onstage to brew trouble in Macgowan Hall this weekend. UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television’s production of “The Kitchen” will run from Friday to Saturday and from March 5 to 9. Read more...
Photo: Graduate students Su Castillo (left) and Ernest Gardner Jr. (right) worked on the production “The Kitchen.” Castillo acts in the show while Gardner constructed the set that portrays a 1958 London restaurant. (Courtesy of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television)
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February 25, 10:17 pm
Alumna’s architecture integrates aesthetics with practical design
Architect Alice Fung doesn’t just design buildings; she tries to make life better for others through her work. The UCLA alumna is a practicing architect at Fung+Blatt Architects, a firm she founded with her husband, Michael Blatt. Read more...
Photo: Alumna Alice Fung gave a lecture Monday on her experience as an architect. Her designs aim to facilitate functionality and easy living, as well as appeal to clients’ aesthetic preferences. (Courtesy of Alice Fung)
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February 25, 10:17 pm
MOCA curates annual student art exhibit featuring diverse subjects and styles
Personal reflection and contemporary conversation inspired 19 art students to give a physical form to societal debates. Bennett Simpson, the senior curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, chose works from a pool of nearly 100 applicants for the UCLA Department of Art’s annual undergraduate exhibition. Read more...
Photo: Jack Garell, a second-year art student, sat next to a photo of himself wrapped in a plastic poncho and sitting on a couch. His piece is part of a series entitled “Plastic People,” which he said comments on the everyday use of plastic. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
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February 24, 11:22 pm
Drama of human connection, cultural divides to play out in theater production
A woman’s relationships with her mother and girlfriend show that those closest to you are not always the most understanding. The effects of war on personal relationships is the focus of “Unseen,” which runs from Thursday until March 2 in Macgowan Hall. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year theater student Eliza Faloona (left) and second-year theater acting student Sophie Landeck (right) star in “Unseen,” a play following war photographer Mia after she wakes up unconscious following a massacre in Istanbul. Faloona said the production highlights the ways in which war impacts interpersonal relationships. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)