Music is a prevalent aspect of the college lifestyle. The question, then, is whether students think deeply on their music, or rock out mindlessly. Read more...
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MC Geologic of the Blue Scholars performed at the 2008 Experience Music Project Pop Conference. This year, the conference will be held for the first time at UCLA beginning today in Schoenberg and continuing in Royce Hall on Saturday and Sunday. Guests include Moby and author Chuck Klosterman.
Credit: EXPERIENCE MUSIC PROJECT
The word "experiment" may often evoke images of scholars in white coats bent over books and beakers, solving hypotheses in laboratories. For UCLA alumna Christine Suarez, movement is her scientific method. Read more...
A man in a black suit stands paralyzed in the middle of a deserted, wet asphalt road. He stares catatonically offscreen, beyond the green, yet glum fields that frame either side of the road. Read more...
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Cinematographer Dagmar Weaver-Madsen won the A. Fraker Student Heritage Award for “The Absence.” (courtesy of Alex DeMille)
The Le J Trio plays a smooth blend of contemporary jazz, fusion and hip-hop "“ and just as a team might celebrate a game well-played, the trio celebrates a show with a taco tradition. Read more...
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Left to right: ethnomusicology alumnus Jake Jamieson, third-year student Julian Le and second-year student Owen Clapp make up the Le J Trio. (Courtesy of Austin Quan)
It's a small world after all. A few days go, one of my fellow editors told me that she went to a dinner party where the host served bruschetta as an appetizer, which turned out to be the bruschetta recipe I wrote about in my last column. Read more...
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Sous chef Amy Chen provided a traditional Chinese lemon shrimp stir-fry recipe comprised of shrimp, ginger, green onions, brown sugar and rice.
It's not everyday that one witnesses a dancer pelted by a head of wet lettuce. Read more...
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Dancers rehearse Herman Moore’s choreography titled “1838 West 78th Street,” which is featured in the “Watch This” MFA2 dance concert.
Taran Killam used to dress up as Jim Carrey for Halloween. Last year, he performed a skit he wrote with Carrey on "Saturday Night Live," something he never thought he'd get to do. While attending UCLA in 2000, Killam auditioned regularly for various acting jobs and ended up landing a role on "MADtv," causing him to take time off from school to pursue acting. Two years ago, "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels came to see a show at the L.A. Read more...
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Taran Killam spent a year at UCLA before leaving to take a role on the sketch comedy show “MADtv.” Last September he joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” where he has done impersonations of Michael Cera and Eminem, among other celebrities.
