Friday, February 27

Second Take: Writers Guild Awards results set stage for Oscars predictions

The red carpet arrivals begin. One by one, familiar faces – actors – and not so familiar faces – writers – walk by an elaborate backdrop. Read more...

Photo: “Spotlight” was one of the winners at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 13, taking home the best original screenplay award. The WGA have generally been a good indication as to what film will triumph at the Academy Awards, with six of the last 10 Oscar winners for best original screenplay also winning at the WGA. (Open Road Films)


Alumna uses MAC, New York Fashion Week as foundation for career

Andrea Tran dabbed an eyeshadow brush in a light shade of eyeshadow and spread it on her eyelids. She then applied a darker shade to the outer corners and blended the colors together with a blending brush to fade the colors in the popular smokey eye look. Read more...

Photo: Andrea Tran, a UCLA alumna, turned her experimentation with makeup to a profession of styling models for New York Fashion Week. (Anisha Joshi/Daily Bruin)


UCLA student displays self-taught, YouTube-inspired makeup skills

Samaria Hudson has transitioned from dancing on stage to working behind it over the course of 2015. Third-year psychobiology student Hudson and two other students will be makeup artists for the UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission’s fashion show, “So Fresh and So Clean,” Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Third-year psychobiology student Samaria Hudson will apply bold looks to models for Cultural Affairs Commission’s hip-hop fashion show, “So Fresh and So Clean.” Hudson plans to use dark reds to create a gothic, smokey eye look for the 15 to 20 models she will be styling. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)


EDM group creates hybrid form of electronic music from classical roots

Stephen Spies was working on a student film, “Young Americans,” when the director asked him to score an electronic beat for it. Spies only had experience with classical pieces, however, so he tried creating electronic sounds by recording himself clapping or sliding his fingers down a bass guitar to make it sound like a drop. Read more...

Photo: Andrea Vancura (left), Stephen Spies (right) and Kyle Dombroski are the three members of EDM group FYS, which infuses electronic music with a classical band sound created from trombones, trumpets and drum sets. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin)


Party Flavors: Zucchini-walnut loaf

The party food landscape has become increasingly homogeneous, with its ubiquitous bag of Doritos rather than homemade fudge or stuffed mushrooms. Columnist Erin Nyren would like to bring back the house parties of yore, in which everyone cooked or baked something to share. Read more...

Photo: Zucchini-walnut loaf is made of ingredients including flour, cinamon, nutmeg, zucchini, baking soda, salt, baking powder, walnuts and egg whites. (Mackenzie Possee/Daily Bruin)


‘Light out of Darkness’ illuminates stories of Holocaust survivors

As a young woman, Sophie Zeidman Hamburger had faced death before the German Nazi soldiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At the age of 93, she told her story to a group of eager students in the main room of Hillel at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: A Holocaust survivor shows pictures of her family before the Holocaust to students. UCLA alumnus Andrew Rosenstein took inspiration from the experiences of the survivors to film a documentary, “Light Out of Darkness.”


Student artists gain exposure, commissions through DeviantArt

Ten-year-old Sylvia Li channeled her artistic ability to draw her favorite characters from Cartoon Network’s “Toonami” once the TV was shut off. She turned to pencil and paper, feeling compelled to release her inner creativity. Read more...

Photo: Roommates Sylvia Li and Deborah Ki shared their anime artwork through DeviantArt before using the website as a platform to sell commissioned pieces. (Zinnia Moreno/Daily Bruin)