Japanese trio Perfume doesn’t look like it would be an electronic dance music group. The girl group’s doll-like aesthetic is sharply juxtaposed with futuristic beats, creating an effect of a delicate comet that does not look dangerous but still burns through the night sky. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Universal Music Japan)
Festival goers strolled under umbrellas and ponchos, ducking into tents to flip through books and escape the drizzle. Authors, vendors and readers congregate for a weekend to celebrate the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books each April. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, hosted at the University of Southern California, brought readers and alumni together from both USC and UCLA. The Festival drew diverse crowds and promoted books Saturday and Sunday. (Kayla Hausmann/Daily Bruin)
Stephanie Wong took a step forward to separate herself from a line of young women dressed in elegant costumes. She stooped down and a silver jeweled crown was placed on top of her dark brown, perfectly laid hair. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Stephanie Wong was crowned Miss Chinatown USA in February. After her experience in the pageant, Wong said she has accepted her Chinese culture. As a pageant queen, she feels inspired to serve as an ambassador for the Chinese-American community. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)
Nine-year-old A.J. Racy would often make small flutes out of the reeds growing a short distance away from his family’s home. He would cut suitable reeds from the garden and dry them, turning them from green to a light brown. Read more...
Photo: Ethnomusicology professor A.J. Racy plays and studies the nay, a reed flute popular in Arab music. To Racy, the nay’s popularity in Arab music stems from its ability to transport the listener to a state called tarab, which means musical ecstasy. Racy was exposed to music as he grew up in a small, rural village in southern Lebanon. (Anthony Tran/Daily Bruin)
Jeff Annison has an idea that has never been attempted in a Hollywood studio: Let fans have a financial stake in the movie productions they love and enjoy. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Jeff Annison (left) and Paul Scanlan (right) co-founded Legion M, the world’s first fan-owned entertainment company. Fans can become shareholders in Legion M and provide creative input in the development of films from their initial conception to final completion. (Courtesy of Jeff Bartee)
A UFO, flashing brilliant lights of blue and gold, hovers 100 meters above an ambulance. The flying saucer shoots a golden ray of light at the vehicle, and in a flash, the ambulance disappears, along with the nuclear device within it. Read more...
Photo: Inspired by his previous experience being bullied, UCLA alumnus Michael Burnam wrote “The Last Stop,” which tells the story of a group of bullied teenagers. (Courtesy of Jessica Burnam)
April Fool’s may be past, but the memory lives! The editors relive their favorite pranks from April Fool’s days past, as well as some of the times they pulled the wool over someone else’s eyes. Read more...
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