Assistant professor of ethnomusicology Münir Beken exhibits the Turkish ud, a pear-shaped string instrument resembling a guitar. Watch this video as Beken’s extensive experience shows in his expert handling of this stringed instrument. Read more...
Music, Video
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January 24, 12:50 pm
UCLA professor displays the Turkish ud
Arts, Arts Columns
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January 22, 12:31 am
Love | Hate: Does ‘The Bachelor’ bring fresh absurdity or tired tropes to reality TV?
With the return of A&E’s “Love | Hate” column, two writers will declare their love or hate for recent pop culture events. After 14 years, does watching a handsome male date 28 random strangers simultaneously, then swap genders and start all over again get tiring? Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of ABC)
Arts, Film & TV
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January 22, 12:30 am
Student filmmaker directs focus to relationships, self-reflection
BY SUZIE PAPANTONI A&E contributor [email protected] A reserved German exchange student in America, the peculiar land of stretchy pants and preservative-filled junk food, resorts to a full-body banana costume to charm his host’s daughter, a nonchalant girl in a gorilla suit. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year film student Clinton Brägger created the quirky romantic comedy “Gorilla-Mädchen,” which is one of two films by UCLA students at the Student Filmmaker Awards (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music, Theater & Fine Arts
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January 22, 12:30 am
Middle Eastern music concert celebrates harmony, humanity
BY KAYLA HAUSMANN A&E contributor [email protected] Farzad Amoozegar straddled two cultures, North American and Iranian, throughout much of his childhood. Before he was 9, the Persian language, culture and food had begun to shape his identity as an Iranian; after moving to Canada and then to America, he discovered music to bridge the gap between Iran and the West. Read more...
Photo: Anthropology graduate students Farzad Amoozegar (left) and Yael Assor (right) coordinated “Voices of the Olive Branch,” a show in which 13 performers will play Middle Eastern music in Powell Library on Saturday. (Zoe Hessler/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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January 22, 12:29 am
Sounds of Schoenberg: The Turkish ‘ud’
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Read more...
Photo: Assistant professor of ethnomusicology Münir Beken (above) studied the Turkish ud at the State Conservatory of Turkish Classical Music in Istanbul. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Lifestyle, Lifestyle, The Quad
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January 21, 12:40 am
Second Take: New apps are using old ideas, need more creativity to be successful
Three new apps are making waves in the social networking community. Peach, Happn and The Outbound bear resemblances to Facebook, Tinder and Yelp, respectively. However, only one of them has the potential to replace the original with a new and intriguing concept. Read more...
Photo: Happn (top left), Peach (bottom left) and The Outbound (right) are new social networking apps that have features similar to existing popular apps. (Happn, TechNewsToday.com, The Outbound)
Arts, Lifestyle
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January 21, 12:40 am
Student fashions makeup, lifestyle YouTube videos
Cloe Feldman is a YouTube celebrity, and she’s very busy because of it. Her YouTube channel, CloeCouture, has over 1.67 million subscribers and she will soon be the face of a clothing company with several other YouTubers. Read more...
Photo: First-year business economics student Cloe Feldman, known professionally as Cloe Breena, has over 1.67 million subscribers on her YouTube lifestyle channel, CloeCouture. (Courtesy of Dylan Robbins)