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Arts, Lifestyle

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January 30, 8:16 pm

Boulevard Bites: Inconsistent quality eclipses original flavors of Cake and Art

Finding a delicious restaurant in Los Angeles can be difficult amongst the city’s thousands of dining options. To help readers narrow down their search, the Daily Bruin will review restaurants located along main street boulevards near UCLA each week. Read more...

Photo: Cake and Art sells elaborate and expensive custom cake shapes that feature celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and characters like the Mad Hatter. It also sells a small selection of cupcakes for less expensive prices, but offers no seating at the shop. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin staff)

Arts, Music

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January 29, 8:12 pm

UCLA Wind Ensemble winter concert to reflect on political climate

Travis J. Cross said a person’s interpretation of a composition is like an alternative fact – every single person in an audience has an entirely different experience hearing the same piece of music. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Wind Ensemble will perform political-themed pieces by composers Leonard Bernstein and Dmitri Shostakovich on Monday. It will be conducted by Travis Cross (pictured), music department vice chair and associate professor of music. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Film & TV

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January 29, 7:56 pm

Grad student redirects passion toward film after finishing med school

Myra Aquino traded doctors’ scrubs for a director’s chair. During her four years at the University of Miami, Aquino doubted her passion for medicine. Her mind wandered in class, imagining her family medicine lecture turning into a martial arts movie. Read more...

Photo: Film graduate student Myra Aquino is working on on a short film about Southeast Asian breakfast foods. Facebook connections from the region sent Aquino clips of their countrys’ local dishes for her project, “The Southeast Asia Conversation.” (Marley Maron/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Music

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January 29, 2:15 pm

Album review: ‘Culture’

Migos knows how to capitalize on viral potential. The Atlanta trio inspired the “rain drop, drop top” memes, coined the “dab” dance move and landed the No. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Quality Control Music / 300 Entertainment)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 27, 4:25 pm

Hammer Museum releases details of expansion plan

The Hammer Museum announced details of its upcoming expansion, which will increase exhibition space 60 percent by 2020, in a press release Thursday. The proposed renovations, spearheaded by architect Michael Maltzan, began in September 2016 with remodeling the museum’s third floor galleries. Read more...

Photo: The Hammer Museum began renovations in September 2016 after UCLA’s $92.5 million purchase in 2015 allowed the museum to grow into five floors of a Wilshire Boulevard building. (Daily Bruin file photo)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 26, 11:13 pm

UCLA students join New York performers in ‘Lost in the Stars’

The curtain will open on a train filled with South Africans traveling to Johannesburg during apartheid. The instrumental music will go silent and the characters will begin to segregate on stage, singing, “White man go to Johannesburg, he come back, he come back / Black man go to Johannesburg, never come back, never come back.” New York-based theater group SITI Company will be performing Kurt Weill’s 1949 musical “Lost in the Stars” at Royce Hall on Saturday and Sunday, featuring a chorus including several UCLA students and alumni. Read more...

Photo: The musical “Lost in the Stars” by Kurt Weill, set in South Africa during apartheid, raises contemporary issues of race relations and inequality. (Sihui Song/Daily Bruin)


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