February brings love notes and roses, cupids and valentines. But there’s another “V-Day” this month that gifts gender empowerment instead of chocolates. Throughout the month of February, UCLA students of Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art will host an ongoing V-Day campaign for gender equality with performances and panels aiming to fuse art and activism in a creative way. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year Latin American studies student Jen Lainez performs as part of “The Vagina Monologues,” which will conclude a month-long campaign titled V-Day, hosted by UCLA students of Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art. Each V-Day event follows a donation-based admission price.

As Tanino Drago descends the stairs wearing a white chef‘s coat with two small Italian flags on both sides of the collar, he is greeted by excited shouts of “Tanino!” and hugs a longtime customer. Read more...

There is a family secret behind UCLA alumna Lauryn Chun’s booming kimchi business, but she and her mother aren’t telling. “I cannot tell you,” Chun’s mother, Young Ja, said. Read more...

Photo: Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish of fermented radish and cabbage that Chun and her mother sold in her mother’s restaurant, Jang Mo Gip. Inspired by the restaurant’s name, Korean for “mother-in-law,” Chun named her business Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi.