Students should avoid cultural appropriation – stealing what is considered the beautiful aspects of another culture without respect for the tradition from which it originates. It ignores the racism and xenophobia the creators of the items face. Read more...
Photo: Pakistani clothes like the “shalwar kameez” can be worn in different contexts. Clothes like “abayas” are meant for religious purposes, but are often used by celebrities today as fashion statements. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin)
Lilo Papikian starts off her day by choosing whether to wear her red-rimmed, cat-eye or black-framed, heart-shaped sunglasses while riding her scooter to campus in the summertime sun. Read more...
Photo: Students have also been spotted wearing sunglasses with frames of different shapes. First-year psychology student Lilo Papikian bought black-rimmed, heart-shaped shades from the UCLA store in Ackerman Union because a character from one of her favorite shows, “Mr. Robot” wears similar sunglasses. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
Adam Friedman learned how to play guitar on a miniature electric Fender Stratocaster from Guitar Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. But it was an acoustic Olympia guitar that inspired Friedman to pursue songwriting around the age of 12. Read more...
Photo: Pop singer-songwriter Adam Friedman released his debut EP “Green” this year. Though he moved to the West Coast to work as a technical assistant at a studio, he began professionally pursuing music after his song “Glorious” featured as the theme song of the film “Rock Dog.” (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)
A cinematographer discreetly started filming as a child actor fiddled with a solar system mobile on the set of “The Spaceman.” The short film that carried second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in May contains no dialogue. Read more...
Photo: Second-year undeclared student Aman Adlakha, fourth-year English student Harit Muttreja and second-year communication studies student Will Greenberg went to the 2017 Cannes Film Festival with their film “The Spaceman.”
Will Hammer doesn’t like to describe his music – he prefers to have listeners draw their own conclusions about the music’s sound, as he draws inspiration from an assortment of different genres and sounds. Read more...
Photo: Second-year undeclared student Will Hammer produces “Live Session” videos in which his friends film him performing his songs. He has released three films so far on his YouTube channel GARLYN. (Axel Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Take a look, or two, because there’s a lot to see at the Double Take restaurant. Situated at the bottom of Hotel Palomar, one of Westwood’s boutique hotels, the newly established American eatery is a great place to network with business executives while waiting for the 405 traffic to die down or to grab dinner with a special someone for a swanky evening dinner. Read more...
Photo: Double Take on Wilshire Boulevard offers Haas avocado “fries” with a spiced-lime aioli sauce for $14 and an herb-roasted half chicken served with forest mushrooms, black kale and new crop potatoes for $26. (Vivian Chen/Daily Bruin)
The smell of barbecue ribs and the sound of reggae pop remixes wafted through the air Monday at UCLA’s JazzReggae Festival. Concertgoers filed through the gates of the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, sporting multicolored tinted glasses, crop tops and brightly patterned flannels. Read more...
Photo: Reggae singer Oje Ken Ollivierre performed under his stage name Protoje at the 31st annual JazzReggae Festival hosted by Cultural Affairs Commission in Sunset Recreation. He took the stage with funky keyboard tunes and an electric guitar, and featured two female vocalists on “Rasta Love.” In between two of his songs, he encouraged the crowd to live in the moment. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
