This week, a group of artists and students will come together, united in their efforts to further understand and relay the experience of being a transgender individual. Read more...
Photo: D’Lo, a transgender actor and UCLA alumnus, will be featured at “art TRANSforms us” Tuesday at the Northwest Campus Auditorium on the Hill. The event will be presented by TransUP and Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art. (Courtesy of Jack Kaden)
Strawberry season in California brings many tasty things: strawberry pies, strawberry jams, even strawberry beer and strawberry caviar – delicacies presented at the annual California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard. Read more...
Photo: The annual California Strawberry Festival took place Saturday in Oxnard. English graduate student Alethia Shih (left) won The Berry Blast Off Recipe Contest Championship for her strawberry-based poke cake. (Marina Romanchuk-Kapralau/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated on May 17 at 4:22 p.m. On Saturday night in Pauley Pavilion, a surprise performance by Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis and Josh Klinghoffer and skits by comedy group Company were interspersed with a cappella groups, dance teams, bands, solos and duets taking the Spring Sing stage. Read more...
Photo: Jazz, funk and R&B band Fine Print took home The Northern California Alumni Grand Sweepstakes Award for best overall performance and The UCLA Las Doñas Award for best band entry for its performance of its original song “Move On.” (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)
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...
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...
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)
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)
