Tuesday, March 3

Students celebrate winter holidays with gift exchanges

Now is the time of year when De Neve Dining Hall starts serving leftover turkey, water falls from the sky and winter break looms ominously over the student body. Read more...

Photo: Third-year psychology student Shannon Kanegawa (left) and first-year undeclared life sciences student Allison Cutshall (right) are among many students searching for the right gifts this holiday season. Daily Bruin A&E presents gift ideas from books and films sure to please every post-finals week college student. (Eu Ran Kwak/Daily Bruin)


Movie Review: ‘Inherent Vice’

Thomas Pynchon, the notoriously reclusive writer of such postmodern classics as “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” has built a career off novels deemed too dense, idiosyncratic and cerebral to ever be translated to the screen effectively. Read more...

Photo: (Warner Bros.)


KWAYE – A new music artist hits UCLA from the UK

Positive energy and soulful music is what this exchange student from the United Kingdom is about. Kwayedza Kureya, or more commonly known by his musical name, KWAYE, is studying at UCLA for a year, and he’s already making an impact. Read more...

Photo: (Vikram Kumar/Daily Bruin)


Q&A: Alumna talks band Smoke Season tour, Spring Sing performances

Three and a half years ago Gabrielle Wortman stood on a stage at the Los Angeles Tennis Center and performed for a crowd of thousands at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. At the time she was a music media and management student at UCLA. Now she, along with her new band Smoke Season, is traveling in a tour van on an seven-city tour up the West Coast. Read more...

Photo: Jason Rosen (left) and UCLA alumna Gabrielle Wortman (right) comprise the band Smoke Season. Having played twice at Spring Sing, Wortman said her performances at UCLA prepared her for her musical career. (La Famos)



Q&A: Composer Eric Tanguy talks music, paying homage to Henri Dutilleux

Eric Tanguy’s catalog of more than 100 musical compositions has resonated with audiences in more than 25 countries at major venues like Carnegie Hall and earned him designation as “Composer of the Year” twice in France. Read more...

Photo: French composer Eric Tanguy is a guest lecturer of a composition seminar at the Herb Alpert School of Music. The UCLA Philharmonia will perform Tanguy’s homage to composer Henri Dutilleux, “Affettuoso,” Thursday. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)


UCLA New Play Festival features coming-of-age story ‘The Other Town’

With a little more than 100 pages, playwright Nick Johnson, a graduate student in the School of Theater, Film and Television, sheds light on the adversities of growing up. Read more...

Photo: The New Play Festival will feature “The Other Town,” a play written by UCLA TFT graduate student Nick Johnson. The play’s cast includes TFT students Lila Gavares (left) and Sarah Yarkin (right). (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)