Friday, November 13

Creative kidnapping story spurs Snapchat fame

A Snapchat story depicted two students in De Neve Gardenia being kidnapped during finals week of winter quarter. Improvised as a sequence of 10-second Snapchat stories, the fictional narrative of the two students compelled followers of the UCLA campus Snapchat story to drag down the refresh button and find out what would happen next. Read more...

Photo: Third-year psychology student Patrick Hernandez-Ball has been featured in about 40 different UCLA campus Snapchat stories. He uses Snapchat as a medium to express himself, rapping and spreading comedic messages about college life to students. (Mischa Rajendiran/Daily Bruin)


Bruin Consent Coalition aims to empower through self-care art

Ishani Patel reached into her backpack to dig for a pen at the beginning of her Classics 42: “Cinema and the Ancient World” course. Instead, her fingers clasped the smooth, glassy surface of the small stone she carried everywhere. Read more...

Photo: Ishani Patel, a fifth-year classical civilizations student and co-director of Bruin Consent Coalition, is one of the hosts of “I Can, We Can: Self-Care Through Trauma.” The event aims to help survivors of trauma and the rest of the community create physical reminders, called touchstones, of their own self-worth. Here, Patel holds her own touchstones. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)


Album review: ‘Home’

The music of rock band Blue October gives an in-depth look into lead singer Justin Furstenfeld’s life of substance abuse, divorce, child custody battles, sobriety and recovery. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Up Down Records)


The Brunch Club: Salt’s Cure

The starter pack of an urban chic restaurant includes cement floors, pipe decor, modern white chairs, silver-wired lamps and mason jars. The interior design of Salt’s Cure fits the city warehouse theme, but its food is rustic country all the way. Read more...

Photo: The popular 2x2x2 meal at Salt’s Cure in Hollywood is made of up two sausage, two pieces of bacon, two eggs and a biscuit with jam. The thick, soft strips of bacon were impressive and resembled slices of pork ribs in texture and flavor. (Miriam Bribiesca/Assistant Photo Editor)


Love | Hate: Can ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ still pack a punch?

The unmistakable theme song to “The Powerpuff Girls” filled many homes from 1998 to 2005 as fans around the world tuned in to watch Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup fight crime and the forces of evil. Read more...

Photo: Over a decade after the last episode of Cartoon Network’s “The Powerpuff Girls,” Bubbles (left), Blossom (center) and Buttercup are set for a 2016 reboot and have undergone a modernized revamp. (Courtesy of Cartoon Network)


Local group inspired to overcome racism and strife through music

Westwood Village Entertainment Group, or WVEG, was inspired by an old Nigerian proverb: “It takes a village to raise a child.” For them, their proverbial child is their music. Read more...

Photo: Westwood Village Entertainment Group performed at Bruin Day this year, with founder and third-year ethnomusicology student Munir Griffin (left) on saxophone. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)


Album Review: ‘Always Strive and Prosper’

A$AP Ferg has shed his “Fergivicious” demeanor and repented to the “Hood Pope” one in hopes of finding himself. A three-year period has dramatically transformed the life of A$AP Ferg, from achieving success for his 2013 album “Trap Lord,” to the tragic loss of close friend and A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams in 2015. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of RCA Records)