Monday, March 2

LCC Theatre Company presents winter show, debuts newest members

A homeless drunkard and a stockbroker meet and reveal secrets of their pasts to eventually follow a path of self-acceptance. This is one of three student-written and produced scenes that the UCLA theater group Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will present in its winter show, “The Future, the Present, and the Rest is History…,” funded by the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Read more...

Photo: Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will perform its winter show, “The Future, the Present, and the Rest is History…,” starring first-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student Julianna Remo (left) and fourth-year history student Nathan Guzik (right). (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)


Student creates video-sharing app with limited view system ShuutMe

Over the course of six months, Ryan Trihernawan spent more than 1,000 hours sitting in front of his computer, his eyes straining, his fingers aching from typing ceaseless lines of code. Read more...

Photo: Ryan Trihernawan, a third-year computer science student, released ShuutMe, a video-sharing app for iPhone and Android, last week. Inspired by film industry marketing strategies, each video in the app has a limited number of times it can be viewed before it becomes private, emphasizing exclusivity over mass consumption. (Keila Mayberry/Daily Bruin)


Urban Confections: SnowLA Shavery provides a flurry of sweet SoCal snow

Los Angeles is home to numerous dessert shops that feature a range of treats from cupcakes to doughnuts to shakes. Urban Confections will select dessert restaurants whose only West Coast location is Los Angeles, highlighting students’ opportunities to taste the city’s distinctive flavors. Read more...

Photo: SnowLA Shavery in Koreatown features shaved snow using a milk base rather than a water base. Customers can customize their dessert by selecting a snow flavor and hand-selected toppings. The treats are priced at $0.51 per ounce. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)


CAP artist in residence to perform recent album at Crest Theater

After her father died, Laura Kabasomi Kakoma, known as Somi, said she struggled to find her path as a musician, fighting to balance the social and political expectations of being an African woman. Read more...

Photo: African jazz singer Somi, an artist in residence at the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, will perform Monday with Grammy Award-winning composer Billy Childs at The Crest Theater. (Courtesy of Glynis Carpenter)


Art Exhibit Review: ‘Plastic’

In a technologically-driven society where attention spans are increasingly conditioned by the immediate fulfillment of our digital devices, there exists a group of dancers whose languid movements challenge the contemporary human. Read more...

Photo: Maria Hassabi’s “Plastic” exhibition at the Hammer Museum features dancers sprawled out around the grounds of the museum. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)


Rappers, students burst with energy at annual Hip Hop Explosion event

The 2015 edition of Hip Hop Explosion, part of the Cultural Affairs Commission’s Hip Hop Congress, was officially called into session Thursday night. Instead of stiff suits and flag lapel pins, this crowd consisted of a sea of colorful patterned shirts and snapbacks bobbing to the bumping beats. Read more...

Photo: Cultural Affairs Commission’s Hip Hop Appreciation Month conluded with Hip Hop Explosion Thursday night. The concert featured hip-hop trio Warm Brew as the opener and rappers Earl Sweatshirt (above) and Vince Staples as co-headliners. (Felicia Ramirez/Daily Bruin senior staff)


“What” is dance

Second-year dance and choreography MFA students explore dance’s lack of boundaries by incorporating the ‘unconventional’ into their performance, “What.” Read more...

Photo: (Collette Del Poso/Daily Bruin)