This post was updated on Feb. 26, 2023 at 8:13 p.m. The virtual UC Love campus could be the perfect place to fall head over heels. Read more...
Photo: Bella Pham (left) and Cole Strain (right) sit on a bench with a laptop displaying the UC Love title screen between them. The two students are the co-team leads on UC Love, a dating simulator web game launched by the Association for Computing Machinery at UCLA’s Student Run Studios project. (Sofia McMaster/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated on Feb. 26, 2023 at 8:19 p.m. “Mutt” is exploring the complex nuances of navigating long-lost relationships and day-to-day challenges. Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, “Mutt” follows a day in the life of a young transgender man named Feña who is forced to reconnect with his straight ex-boyfriend, estranged father and 13-year-old half sister. Read more...
Photo: Lío Mehiel plays Feña in “Mutt.” The film follows a day in the life of Feña, a transgender man, as he encounters estranged people from his past. (Courtesy of “Mutt”)
Literature has found a new, controversial home in the white-painted walls of TikTok. As months stuck indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic helped propel the popularity of TikTok, a more niche community also emerged on the social media platform: BookTok. Read more...
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The race for the gold has never been tighter. Streaming on Thursday, the third season of “Outer Banks” finds John B Routledge (Chase Stokes), Sarah Cameron (Madelyn Cline) and the rest of the Pogues stranded on a deserted island, free to do whatever they want after losing the gold they found. Read more...
Photo: (From left to right) Chase Stokes, Carlacia Grant, Jonathan Daviss, Madelyn Cline and Rudy Pankow stand on a pile of rocks in “Outer Banks.” Season 3 of the Netflix series will premiere on Feb. 23. (Courtesy of Jackson Lee Davis/Netflix)
This post was updated Feb. 22 at 8:29 p.m. Conversations of the past are coming alive in the present at “Music and Justice.” From Feb. 26-28, the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will present a collection of talks and concert pieces merging conversations regarding social justice, racism and antisemitism with music. Read more...
Photo: From left to right, composer and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck converses with Erich Kunzel and Duke Ellington during a recording session for “The Gates of Justice.” The cantata, which Brubeck wrote in an attempt to unify Black and Jewish communities following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., serves as one of the central components of the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s upcoming concert and conversation series, “Music and Justice.” (Courtesy of the Brubeck Collection, Wilton Library)
This post was updated Feb. 27 at 8:39 p.m. The Fowler Museum’s latest exhibit is transcending boundaries. Until May 14, the Fowler Museum will feature Iranian American artist Amir H. Read more...
Photo: Amir H. Fallah stands beside his work “Silent Traveler.” The stained-glass piece is part of the Fowler Museum’s “The Fallacy of Borders,” a collection of more than 25 pieces by Fallah. (Ethan Manafi/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated Feb. 28 at 9:13 p.m. After her departure from UCLA, Nicole Athill has ventured into a whole new world. Disney’s “Aladdin” has been running on Broadway for almost nine years, and the School of Theater, Film and Television alumnus is among the latest additions to the cast. Read more...
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