Monday, March 23

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)


Urban Confections: Millions of Milkshakes, a blend of stars

Los Angeles is home to numerous dessert shops that feature a range of treats from cupcakes to doughnuts to shakes. Urban Confections will select dessert restaurants whose only West Coast location is Los Angeles, highlighting students’ opportunities to taste the city’s distinctive flavors. Read more...

Photo: The “Mr. Pink” milkshake from Millions of Milkshakes blends together banana, cookie dough and Ferrero Rocher chocolates. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)


Man bun trend grows across UCLA campus

Now that the weather is warming up and studying for midterms helps keep showers few and far between, many students have begun pulling up that pesky long hair into a bun. Read more...

Photo: Third-year African American studies exchange student from England Kwayedza “Kwaye” Kureya adopts a braided version of the man bun trend seen lately around campus. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)




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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