Daily Bruin shares with you three stories and a taste test video to get you ready for Halloween. Read more...
Photo: (Qingqing Su/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Film & TV, Music
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October 30, 6:36 am
Tempo of Terror: The essential role soundtracks play in horror films
A woman relaxes in the hot water of her shower. Suddenly, she is interrupted by the silhouette of a shadowy figure looming behind the curtain. The figure raises a knife aloft and swings it down. Read more...
Photo: (Qingqing Su/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Lifestyle, News, Westwood
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October 30, 2:08 am
Seasonal store brings Halloween spirit, crafty costume ideas
Twitching corpses, shaking ghouls and blow-up Star Wars characters appear on Westwood Boulevard every fall. They are housed within the doors of the Halloween Club, the seasonal pop-up shop and extension of the Aahs! Read more...
Photo: In 1986, Jack Bhasin bought out the previously owned Aahs! store in Westwood and ran the business with his wife, his cousin and his uncle. Nine years later, the owners brought a Halloween Club to Westwood. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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October 30, 1:47 am
Sounds of Schoenberg: The West African gondze
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: Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, a professor emeritus of ethnomusicology, was introduced to the gondze, a West African fiddle, during a class she took at UCLA for her master’s thesis in 1971. (Bailey Greene/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Film & TV
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October 30, 1:41 am
Movie Review: ‘Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse’
“Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” sees twofold brain chomping: The zombies feast on human brains, and the movie eats away at the audience’s. Unfortunately for the horror comedy, one and a half hours of cheesy clichés, leering teen banter and countless breast close-ups don’t amount to much hilarity. Read more...
Photo: (Paramount Pictures)
Arts, Video
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October 30, 12:46 am
LACMA’s ‘Rain Room’
Combining art and technology, the ‘Rain Room’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, is an interactive piece that mimics a natural rain that stops whenever human presence is detected. Read more...
Photo: (Justine Sto. Tomas and Noor Gill/Daily Bruin Senior Staff)
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV
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October 30, 12:35 am
Lights, Camera, Political Action: ‘All the President’s Men’
Flip on a news channel and you’re likely to see characters with perfectly coiffed hair making fantastical claims directly to camera. But how far does this connection between political figures and entertainment go? Read more...
Photo: Since the 1976 film “All the President’s Men,” the media landscape has changed in the intervening years between Watergate and the 2016 presidential election due to the ubiquity of information easily accessed through the Internet. (Courtesy of Warner Bros.)