Friday, February 27


Second Take: Rachel Platten sets pop music ablaze with new album ‘Wildfire’

The first time I heard Rachel Platten, I just wanted to hear Andy Grammer. She was one of the opening acts for Grammer’s “The Good Guys & A Girl Tour 2015” at the House of Blues in West Hollywood during April. Read more...

Photo: Rachel Platten’s 2015 single “Fight Song” became a radio staple that propelled her budding career to a level comparable to that of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. (Courtesy of YouTube)


LACMA names two UCLA students as curatorial fellowship recipients

Fourth-year art history student Canan Cem turned a page of her Andean textiles textbook, leafing through the glossy photos of pre-Columbian mantles, shawls and tunics woven in bright reds, browns and eggshell blues. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year art history student Canan Cem (left) and third-year history and art history student Audrey Min are the two first-year Andrew W. Mellon undergraduate curatorial fellows at LACMA. Cem and Min shadow curators in the costumes and textiles department and in Chinese and Korean art, respectively. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)


Winter Music Preview

2015 was a tumultuous yet exciting year for music and pop culture, with Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Adele and The Weeknd dominating the charts and musicians such as Frank Ocean and Zayn Malik breaking hearts with an absentee album and his departure from One Direction, respectively. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of George Pimentel via Getty Images)


Movie Review: ‘The Revenant’

An unsuspecting fur trapper is pierced between the eyes by an arrow and crumples to the floor. In the background, dozens of other trappers are shown suffering the same fate. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of 20th Century Fox)


Reels, Notes & Takes: Week 1

There’s no better place to keep a finger on the pulse of arts and entertainment happenings than Los Angeles. The A&E world is alive – it’s always buzzing, sometimes ready to implode with a hint of a surprise album or a celebrity’s controversial statement. Read more...

Photo: courtesy of Pixar


Social media students share stories

Many students on UCLA’s campus have social media accounts; fewer have thousands of followers and are known by their account handles. Daily Bruin Video met with three social-media “famous” students to get their take on their accounts’ popularity. Read more...