Zehao Xue’s “Currency Affairs” clocks in at 3 minutes 52 seconds. But the time Xue spent working on the award-winning film went beyond what he said to be the usual timeline for student projects. Read more...
Photo: Graduate film student Zehao Xue’s animated film “Currency Affairs,” a story about two separated dollar bills, took home the award for Best in Show at the Shorttakes Student Film Festival on May 21. (Courtesy of Zehao Xue)
Elderly Edna Katz sits in her nursing home, bored and watching television, when she is shocked to her feet by an advertisement to save homeless cats. Read more...
Photo: Graduate student Ben Haist’s five-minute long animated film “Cat Lady” won first place in the animation category at the Shorttakes Student Film Festival on May 21. (Conor Cusack/Daily Bruin)
Walls reverberated with a loud history as Kyodo Taiko drummers moved in perfect unison, striking their large drums in a mix of martial arts and percussion. Read more...
Photo: Kyodo Taiko will celebrate its 25th anniversary on Saturday with its spring concert, “Shukusai,” in the Freud Playhouse. Formed in 1990, the group is the oldest collegiate taiko drumming troop in the country. (Rough | Draft Media)
To say that U2 has been going through a rough patch lately is an understatement. When Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. released their latest album “Songs of Innocence” to all iTunes customers for free, there was a substantial backlash, forcing lead singer Bono to publicly apologize. Read more...
Photo: Rock band U2 performs its 2014 single, “Invisible,” at The Forum in Inglewood Wednesday night. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Warner Bros. Television officials announced on Wednesday “The Big Bang Theory” Scholarship Endowment, a fund to provide need-based financial aid for UCLA science, technology, engineering and mathematics students. Read more...
Photo: “The Big Bang Theory” Scholarship Endowment was funded by cast, crew and executive producers of “The Big Theory,” Chuck Lorre Family Foundation and other donors from the entertainment industry. (Warner Bros. Television)
Tucked away in the eastern corner of Culver City, the UCLA graduate art studios is a labyrinth, with every turn leading to another graduate student artist’s atelier. Read more...
Photo: UCLA graduate art students, including CJ Heyliger, will present their artworks on Saturday in Culver City for the biannual Graduate Open Studios. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Musicians cloaked in swirling blue and red robes pluck delicately at zheng zithers, string instruments that originated in China almost two thousand years ago. Continuing the Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz, Saturday’s Music of China Ensemble performance will showcase Chinese culture and heritage at Schoenberg Hall, followed by Sunday’s Irish Music Ensemble performance. Read more...
Photo: The Spring Festival of World Music and Jazz, put on by the ethnomusicology department of the Herb Alpert School of Music, will continue Saturday with a performance by the Music of China Ensemble. Members of the ensemble will play Chinese instruments such as the zheng zithers. (Courtesy of Chi Li)
