B.B. King, whose world-weary voice and soulful guitar riffs defined the genre of Delta blues for generations of Americans, died in his sleep Thursday. He was 89. Read more...
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May 15, 10:52 pm
Blues legend B.B. King dies at 89
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May 15, 2:03 am
Dance Crews prepare for Spring Sing
As Spring Sing 2015 gets closer, not only are the musicians getting ready but for the first time so are the dance crews ACA and Inner Sanctum. Read more...
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May 15, 1:07 am
Rachel Rosenthal dies, remembered for legacy as performance artist
Rachel Rosenthal, a renowned Los Angeles-based performance and theater artist who had a lasting legacy as an educator, including at UCLA, died of congestive heart failure on Sunday evening at her home in West Los Angeles. Read more...
Photo: Rachel Rosenthal, a renowned Los Angeles-based performance and theater artist who had a lasting legacy as an educator, including at UCLA, died on Sunday. She was 88. (Courtesy of Lynn Tejada)
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May 15, 1:00 am
Spring Sing 2015: The Inner Sanctum
Madison Olandt, a second-year world arts and cultures/dance and psychology student, said her major has given her a sixth sense. “We’ll take a class where we will all lay down and close our eyes, listening to our surroundings, or sit in Bruin Plaza and then make a dance out of the pedestrian gestures we observed,” Olandt said. Read more...
Photo: The Inner Sanctum, a 40-person dance group primarily comprised of world arts and cultures/dance students, will perform a dance number based on a fairy tale story at Spring Sing on Saturday. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
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May 15, 1:00 am
Spring Sing 2015: ACA Hip Hop
At the Bridge 2014 competition, ACA Hip Hop’s winning performance was recorded. The video has garnered more than 800,000 views on YouTube since. “Some people (on the team) would walk to class and they would see some people on their phones watching the video,” said second-year bioengineering student Rachel Fujikawa. Read more...
Photo: The Association of Chinese Americans’ dance exhibition will open the second half of Spring Sing on Saturday. Showcasing a wide range of hip-hop styles, the group will open its set with a dance choreographed to Flume’s remix of Lorde’s “Tennis Courts.” (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
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May 15, 12:59 am
Spring Sing 2015: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company
On top of Parking Structure 2 on most weekend evenings throughout winter and spring quarter, dancers leapt across parking spots, while singers belted out their favorite pop songs and actors interjected witty lines. Read more...
Photo: HOOLIGAN Theatre Company has performed at Spring Sing for the past two years and will return to the stage on Saturday with a showcase of energetic pop songs that deal with the theme of acceptance and fitting in at UCLA. (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
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May 15, 12:58 am
Spring Sing 2015: Delta Gamma and Lambda Chi
Nikki Friedman came up with a new theme two weeks after performing in Spring Sing last year with her sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha. Read more...
Photo: Students from the sorority Delta Gamma and the fraternity Lambda Chi Alpha will perform a number featuring Top 40 songs with modified lyrics at Spring Sing. This will mark Delta Gamma’s ninth consecutive year in the competition. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)




