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February 12, 11:23 pm

Stress Less: ASMR fails to tap into tingling sensations but still provides relaxation

Alissa Evans’ experience with stress stems primarily from her inability to definitively choose a major, a recently received D that taints her otherwise mediocre GPA and her complete and utter confusion regarding the abstract concept commonly referred to as her “future.” In the midst of a midcollege crisis, the Daily Bruin columnist decided to try a different stress-relieving activity every other week of winter quarter and chronicled her quest for mental homeostasis in Stress Less. Read more...

Photo: Daily Bruin columnist Alissa Evans tried out autonomous sensory meridian response stimuli for the third installment of “Stress Less.” While she found the soft sounds of ASMR videos to be relaxing, the videos did not provoke the pleasant physical response that many ASMR fans claim. (Daniel Miller/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Lifestyle

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February 12, 11:20 pm

Restaurant review: New boba cafe gives customers sweet taste of picturesque matcha drinks

Koala T Cafe has a new boba rival in Westwood. Located on Weyburn Avenue next to Tomodachi Sushi, Sip offers a selection of milk teas, matcha-infused beverages and matcha-based snacks. Read more...

Photo: Westwood’s newest boba shop Sip offers a pleasant range of milk teas, matcha beverages and matcha-infused snacks. The Daily Bruin’s Anushka Jain particularly enjoyed the shop’s white chocolate matcha, but found the lychee oolong milk tea to be overwhelmingly sweet. (Manpreet Grewal/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Music

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February 12, 11:16 pm

Students use 3-D printing to bring music to underprivileged children

Updated Feb. 12 at 7:43 p.m. A group of UCLA students will use 3-D printed instruments to teach elementary school children about the intersection of art and science. Read more...

Photo: Joey Meurer, a third-year mechanical engineering student, Sam Celentano, a third-year physics student, and Ryan Poon, a third-year mechanical engineering student (left to right) worked with UCLA’s chapter of the 3-D Printing For Everyone club to design 3D-printed ukuleles, which it plans to donate to underprivileged children. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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February 12, 1:42 am

Alumna’s art questions authenticity of human interaction amid technology

Screaming in public is rarely acceptable. But at alumna and assistant professor Lauren McCarthy and collaborator Kyle McDonald’s exhibition, that’s exactly what visitors will do. For McCarthy and McDonald’s latest project, “How We Act Together,” visitors to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts stand in front of a large video projection on the wall of the exhibition hall. Read more...

Photo: Alumna and assistant professor Lauren McCarthy worked on an art piece called “How We Act Together,” which is currently on display at the “Lost in the Net Dream” exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art. The web-based piece prompts its audience to perform simple tasks such as nodding or screaming while on camera. (Laura Uzes/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Lifestyle, Theater & Fine Arts

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February 12, 1:36 am

LCC Theatre Company hosts Valentine’s Day show parodying romantic tropes

On Valentine’s Day students can choose between “Fifty Shades Freed” and “Fifty Shades of Comedy,” but only one features vampire boyfriends. On Wednesday, Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company and Shenanigans Comedy Club will perform love-based segments in “Fifty Shades of Comedy.” The Valentine’s Day show, which will take place in the Kerckhoff Grand Salon, will bring comedy to the holiday by mocking romantic genres and cliches, said producer Drew Tran. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year psychology student Elijah Lang and third-year linguistics and psychology student Mars Holscher star in “Murderer, I Hardly Know Her.” The skit ridicules the monologue-ridden genre of film noir, Lang said. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV

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February 8, 11:20 pm

Movie review: ‘The 15:17 to Paris’

A group of friends who met in junior high school take on an international terrorist threat in “The 15:17 to Paris.” “The 15:17 to Paris,” directed by Clint Eastwood, follows the true story of three Americans who stop a terrorist attack aboard a Paris-bound train while traveling together through Europe. Read more...

Photo: (Photo courtesy of Keith Bernstein)


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