Tuesday, June 24

Students create new hemp-based milk alternative with ‘Chilk’

This post was updated Sept. 30 at 4:24 p.m. Chilk is milk’s cooler cousin. Conceived in November, the student startup creates milk-alternative beverages infused with hemp extracts that contain a percent of CBD, which aids with stress relief and relaxation. Read more...

Photo: Started in November of last year, Chilk formulates milk-alternative drinks infused with hemp extracts to promote stress relief and relaxation. The company was originally conceived as a joke between friends, however they now sell their product in Westwood and plan to expand to the rest of California. (Chelsea Westman/Daily Bruin)





‘Tearless’ VR project tells story of comfort women in Korea

This post was updated Oct. 9 at 11:00 p.m. Some stories are painful past the point of tears. In her latest virtual reality project, “Tearless,” director and UCLA film professor Gina Kim continues to tell the story of “comfort women” in Korea subjected to sexual violence at the hands of the United States military from the 1950s. Read more...

Photo: Director and UCLA film professor Gina Kim’s latest 3D VR film “Tearless” seeks to educate viewers around the history of comfort women in South Korea, immersing viewers into the scenes themselves. (Courtesy of Cyan Films)


Comedic play ‘Our Man in Santiago’ combines humor, American history

This post was updated Sept. 26 at 9:35 p.m. Espionage hijinks meet American history in “Our Man in Santiago.” After its initial debut was shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the comedic play returns to Theatre West for a five-week run from Sept. Read more...

Photo: Written by Mark Wilding and starring alumnus Nick McDow Musleh, “Our Man in Santiago” follows the true story of CIA activity in 1973 Chile but remolds the narrative into a spy-thriller comedy play. (Courtesy of Charlie Mount)


Graduate student’s art exhibit speaks on diasporic communities through soil

LaRissa Rogers is resculpting her history with soil. In her show “On Belonging: The Space In Between,” the fine arts graduate student uses soil and other tactile elements to explore her relationship to land and belonging. Read more...

Photo: Fine arts graduate student LaRissa Rogers road tripped across the country, collecting soil at state borders to become part of her show “On Belonging: The Space In Between.” (Antonio Martinez/Daily Bruin)