They call themselves the “Vagina Warriors” – a group of UCLA students who gather in the Residential Life office on Wednesday nights. The meetings are for UCLA’s fifth annual production of “The Vagina Monologues,” which will run Thursday to Saturday in the Northwest Campus Auditorium on the Hill. Read more...
Photo: The cast of “The Vagina Monologues” practices a group scene during its dress rehearsal in preparation for the upcoming performance on Thursday. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
The buzuq twangs, the tapan beats and Sevi Bayraktar lets out a joyous zilgit that pierces the air. The zilgit, a shrill Kurdish cry, expresses the feelings of the female dancers of Asia Minor. Read more...
Photo: Sevi Bayraktar (left), a graduate student in world arts and culture/dance and choreographer, Anna Kouchnerov (center), a second-year music performance student, and Merima Tricic (right), a third-year political science and world arts and cultures student, practice for their “Dancing Asia Minor” piece. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: In Matt Fraction’s and David Aja’s “Hawkeye,” facets of Hawkeye’s past are revealed over time. (Courtesy of Matt Fraction and David Aja)
“Smoke + Mirrors” Imagine Dragons Interscope Records 4 paws Imagine Dragons’ new album “Smoke + Mirrors” defies every label or even being classified under a single genre. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Interscope Records)
John O’Donnell was 7 years old when he took his first step on Los Angeles sand in 1973. He had only resided in Southern California for two short years before moving to Illinois, but about 10 years later, O’Donnell was headed back to the West Coast to attend UCLA. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus and former member of the UCLA golf team John O’Donnell founded Johnnie-O, a clothing line based in Santa Monica that is inspired by the Southern California lifestyle. O’Donnell combined California surf and East Coast prep to create Johnnie-O’s West Coast prep style that features four-button polos, T-shirts, swim trunks and button downs. (Monica Jeon/Daily Bruin)
Third-year psychobiology student Michael de Virgilio is releasing his first single under the name Mr. Moon. Watch and listen to Mr. Moon perform “Darling.” Read more...
Photo: (Barry Yang/Daily Bruin)
When the Producers Guild of America asked him to write a story with a car in it, Alvaro Ron thought of his grandfather. Ron’s grandfather drove actors and actresses in the ’50s, such as Ava Gardner and Charlton Heston, while they filmed in Spain. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Alvaro Ron created the seven-minute short film, “The Red Thunder,” for the Producers Guild of America’s Make Your Mark competition. Ron’s film was a finalist for the short film contest. (Courtesy of Alvaro Ron)
