Thursday, November 12

UCLA art student created quirky T-shirt line, hopes to grow business

Hannah Kim invented a holiday to advertise her hand-printed chicken shirts. Through her National Chicken Shirt Days, which occur sporadically throughout the year with the support of her friends, Kim grew her own T-shirt line under the name of CHINGOOZ, a word which translates to “friends” in Korean. Read more...

Photo: Hannah Kim, a second-year art student, created her own clothing line called CHINGOOZ. The line’s first design featured a red chicken, which Kim advertised through made up holiday events on Facebook. (MacKenzie Coffman/Daily Bruin)



Student develops TV pilot based on grandfather’s post-WWII experience

Liz Buda’s grandfather survived the concentration camps of Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Kaufering, only to face the difficult conditions of the black market in a postwar displaced persons camp. Read more...

Photo: (Left to right) Channing Dungey, Liz Buda, Neil Landau and Tony Goldwyn pose at the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, where MFA screenwriting student Buda won first place for the script of her pilot episode of “Zero Hour.” (Courtesy of Todd Cheney)



Dance Break: ICARUS’ complex jazz routine requires flexibility beyond most novices

Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through rehearsals at a daycare-like dance studio until the age of 8. Read more...

Photo: ICARUS Contemporary Dance Company’s audition routine consisted of jazz choreography to a catchy Britney Spears tune. The routine involved lots of skyward leaps, kicks and trials of flexibility. (Photo by Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin, photo illustration by Kristie-Valerie Hoand/Assistant Photo editor)


Video: Irish Music Ensemble at UCLA

UCLA’s Irish Music Ensemble, led by adjunct assistant professor Aaron Bittel in the ethnomusicology department, provides students with the opportunity to come together, play Irish music and share memories and traditions associated with the Irish tunes. Read more...


Student speaks her mind, finds home in open-mic poetry

When she was still in elementary school, Tamia Romo wrote her first poem: an ode to her mother. “My mom actually writes poetry, so I was introduced through her, and it’s always been something I’ve done to analyze the world around me,” said the second-year political science student. Read more...

Photo: Tamia Romo, a second-year political science student, said her poetry is inspired by her mother and universal topics such as racism and sexism. (Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)