Sunday, February 22

Restaurant review: Seoul House of Tofu

UCLA students don’t have to make the long trek out to Koreatown to get some tasty Korean food. Located along Sawtelle Boulevard, Seoul House of Tofu is a prime location for delicious Korean comfort food. Read more...

Photo: Seoul House of Tofu specializes in soon dubu jjigae, a Korean stew of soft tofu and other fillings. The restaurant, which is located along Sawtelle Boulevard offers students a nearby option for comforting Korean food. (Andrew Warner/Daily Bruin senior staff)


New class explores black horror genre’s themes of survival, racism

This fall, students will delve into the hidden meanings of “Get Out’s” bloody brain extractions for course credit. Professor Tananarive Due’s fall course, African American studies 188A: “Special Courses in African American Studies: Sunken Place: Racism, Survival, and Black Horror Aesthetic,” will explore “Get Out” and other black horror films through the lenses of racism, survival and dystopia. Read more...

Photo: Professor Tananarive Due will teach African American Studies 188A, a course that will feature films like the 2017 horror film “Get Out.” Students will also be asked to analyze black horror films such as “Blacula” and written works such as Due’s own novel, “The Good House.” (Courtesy of Daniel Ebon)


Video: Riley Grant: Pique Podcast

Riley Grant, the creator of Pique and a first-year pre-business economics student, tells the Daily Bruin how he got involving with podcasting, why he enjoys it and what he hopes listeners get out of his audio shows. Read more...


Video: Last-minute packing tips

It’s all too easy to forget the practical things you take for granted at home. Check out this list of packing tips we’ve compiled to help get you through your first year at UCLA. Read more...


Autry Museum photo exhibition highlights Mexican-American community

The photographers of “La Raza” sifted through thousands of memories embedded in the images they had taken 50 years ago. “La Raza,” a Chicano newspaper turned magazine that ran from 1967 to 1977, documented the Mexican-American community’s strife for equal rights through articles and photographs of its volunteer photographers. Read more...

Photo: Michael Aguilar (left), Xaviera Flores (center) and Chon Noriega (right), organize some of the images featured at the LA RAZA exhibition, which opened Sept. 16 and will run through early 2019. (Courtesy of Cheyenne Lentz)


Students personalize dorm rooms with photos, decorations

Wesley Chioh has photographs of Soviet architecture and Galapagos beaches tacked to his dorm room wall. The pictures represent all the places the second-year geography student travelled during his breaks from the Singaporean military and serve as reminders of each destination. Read more...

Photo: Second-year geography student Wesley Chioh customized his dorm room by fitting Ping-Pong balls over fairy lights. He also hung up photographs and maps of Transylvania and the world. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin)


Alumni to produce, write film with New York Times bestselling author

This post was updated Sept. 23 at 12:18 p.m. Dave Pelzer’s first book happened to make The New York Times Best Sellers list on the day of his first-ever meeting with a Hollywood producer in 1997. Read more...

Photo: UCLA screenwriting alumni Tamlin Hall (left) and David Goldblum (right) are co-writing a film adaptation of Dave Pelzer’s New York Times best-selling novel “A Child Called ‘It.’” The film is set to shoot in 2018. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin)