Janelle Monáe fans can finally take a deep look into the R&B songstress’ clever mind in the form of a defiant and bugged computer. In Monáe’s first two studio albums she remained somewhat elusive, building a lure around an alter ego known as Cindi Mayweather, a robot revolutionary. Read more...
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A group of students dressed in carrot costumes strutted down the runway at Dance Marathon, throwing carrots at the energized crowd. Dressed as carrots for their namesake color, Team Orange walked away with first place in Dance Marathon’s Color Wars fashion show. Read more...
Photo: Austin Newton, a third-year business economics student, wore cut-up boxes of Capri Sun over his head and his hands at Dance Marathon 2018. Newton is the mascot for Team Green, which took third place at the Color Wars fashion show. (Emma Skinner/Daily Bruin)
Loud EDM music was replaced with laughter as comedians Salma Zaky and Katie Green took the makeshift stage in Pauley Pavilion for a quick 20-minute sketch. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Katie Green (pictured) took the stage with third-year English student Salma Zaky to perform their comedy routines, touching on subjects from gender-neutral bathrooms to college dating. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)
YOUTHphonics, basked in blue lighting, kicked off the opening ceremonies for this year’s Dance Marathon. YOUTHphonics, a community service a cappella group at UCLA, first performed at dance marathon two years ago. Read more...
Photo: This year’s Dance Marathon kicked of with a rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine” sung by YOUTHphonics, a community service a cappella group, to tie into the theme of “Connect.” (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin staff)
Led by adjunct associate professor of ethnomusicology Supeena Insee Adler, UCLA’s Music of Thailand Ensemble practices and performs a traditional style of Thai music called mahori. Read more...
Presenters at Visionworlds used virtual reality to turn pancreatic beta cells into a bustling cityscape with anatomic infrastructure. The symposium, which will take place at the UCLA IDEAS campus April 28, aims to show how VR can be integrated into the design process of architectural environments, said Güvenç Özel, lead faculty member and program advisor of IDEAS. Read more...
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Adjunct assistant professor Supeena Insee Adler revived UCLA’s Music of Thailand Ensemble after spending 100 hours refurbishing decayed Thai instruments. David Morton, a former professor at UCLA’s department of music, originally founded the ensemble in 1964 using instruments he personally acquired from Thailand. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Music of Thailand Ensemble was founded in 1964, but went on hiatus since 1985. The ensemble opened again in 2016, and is open to all students and faculty. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)
