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January 23, 12:03 am

arTistic Attention: Marissa Ochsner brings behind-the-scenes experience to music classes

It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Read more...

Photo: After working odd jobs at music performance venues for two years, Melissa Ochsner became a teaching assistant for Music History 68: The Bealtes and Music History 7 Film and Music. Ochsner hopes to explore research about music as an archaist in the future. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Film & TV

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January 23, 12:00 am

Film reveals hidden facets of Tibetan culture, language loss

Khashem Gyal speaks the language of an ancient and evolving culture. Like many young Tibetans, Gyal says he understands that speaking his native tongue of Amdo Tibetan has become increasingly rare. Read more...

Photo: Khashem Gyal spent four months in Hualong, China shooting his film “Valley of the Heroes,” which will be screened in the Humanities Building. (Courtesy of Khashem Gyal)

Arts, Lifestyle, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 22, 12:38 am

Stand-up group BoyBand brings weekly laughs to The Improv Space

Nathan Mosher performs stand-up comedy "Improve Space_Nathan_Clips". Released: 2015. "Nathan Mosher performs stand-up comedy"
UCLA student Austin Nasso peforms at the Improv Space "austin". "UCLA student Austin Nasso peforms at the Improv Space"

After Richie Rosales, member of the stand-up group BoyBand, performed a joke, a man in the audience stormed out. He did so exclaiming, “That was too funny. Read more...

Photo: Founded by second-year English student Nathan Mosher, BoyBand is The Improv Space’s first weekly stand-up comedy performing every Thursday night. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Music

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January 22, 12:36 am

Album Review: ‘Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance’

Belle and Sebastian is more often romanticized than listened to. The whimsical Scottish band is known for its airy melodies with heavy lyrics often quoted on personal blogs, such as the famous line “color my life with the chaos of trouble” from “The Boy with the Arab Strap.” But the group’s newest album, “Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance,” proves once again that they are a band worth paying attention to. Read more...

Photo: (Matador Records)

Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV

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January 22, 12:22 am

Cross Cut: LGBT films from Europe, America differ in focus

In film editing, crosscutting is the technique of cutting between actions occurring at the same time, but in different locations. In Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, foreign cinema rarely takes the spotlight from the plethora of local releases. Read more...

Photo: “The Duke of Burgundy,” which releases this Friday at the Nuart Theater, is a prime example of European LGBT cinema conventions. This genre stands in stark contrast to American LGBT cinema. (Protagonist Pictures)

Arts, Film & TV

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January 21, 12:07 am

UCLA Film and Television Archive presents rare Mizoguchi films

Kenji Mizoguchi reflects the personal experiences of his sister’s life as a geisha and his father’s business and financial failure onto the big screen. The UCLA Film and Television Archive is showing nine of Mizoguchi’s films from Jan. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Film and Television Archive is currently screening the films of Kenji Mizoguchi at the Billy Wilder Theater. The first screening of Mizoguchi’s film “Ugetsu” took place Friday to open the month-long series. (Courtesy of UCLA Film and Television Archives)


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