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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)

Arts, Lifestyle

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January 26, 11:08 pm

UCLA student has modeling hobby down to a science

Jaclyn Perry stopped in South Campus to make sure she had everything she needed for the day: a biochemistry lab manual, notebooks, a lab coat and a pair of high heels for an upcoming photoshoot. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year neuroscience student and model Jaclyn Perry first gained confidence in modeling when she participated in FAST her sophomore year. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Film & TV

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January 26, 1:00 am

Q&A: UCLA professor talks inspiring a character in a 1980 Italian novel

Italian professor Massimo Ciavolella and the late Italian author Umberto Eco were good acquaintances. Ciavolella invited Eco to lecture during the professor’s classes at UCLA. Eco made Ciavolella a character in his book “Il nome della rosa,” or “The Name of the Rose.” The novel details a series of murders that take place at a Benedictine monastery in 1327. Read more...

Photo: Italian and comparative literature professor Massimo Ciavolella inspired a character in Umberto Eco’s book. The 1986 movie adaptation of the book will be screened at UCLA. (Courtesy of Brett Landenberger)


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