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October 14, 12:00 am

UCLA alum starts kids’ dance, music company Backseat Beats

In her freshman year of high school, Shadi Amirieh volunteered for a nonprofit organization, the Friendship Circle, where she mentored and guided children with autism. Inspired by her experience, she wanted to start a company so that parents and their kids could enjoy themselves while improving the children’s motor skills and development, the UCLA alumna said. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumna Shadi Amirieh founded Backseat Beats, which is a dance, fitness and music company in Los Angeles geared toward young children and babies. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Film & TV

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October 13, 3:19 am

Q&A: Faculty member’s film ‘Bitter Honey’ explores polygamy in Indonesia

With his experience as an anthropologist guiding him through the process, UCLA anthropology assistant adjunct professor Robert Lemelson set out to record seven years in the lives of three polygamous families in present-day Bali, Indonesia in his documentary, “Bitter Honey.” Lemelson said after the regime of the second president of Indonesia, Suharto – which lasted from 1967 to 1998 – fell, the country was shook with a wave of sexual violence, he added. Read more...

Photo: Robert Lemelson, a UCLA anthropology assistant adjunct professor, is the director of the documentary “Bitter Honey,” which follows polygamous relationships in Bali, Indonesia. These relationships involve husbands with many wives and are often plagued by violence and infidelity. (Courtesy of Robert Lemelson)

Arts, Arts Columns, Music

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October 13, 3:19 am

Across the Pond: Trip-hop innovator Massive Attack brings cultural flavors of Bristol

There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way through to the explosion of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Read more...

Photo: British band Massive Attack pioneered the trip-hop genre with its 1991 album “Blue Lines.” (Virgin Records)

Arts, Film & TV

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October 10, 12:30 am

Movie Review: ‘Mudbloods’

A girl is tackled to the ground by a player twice her size. Broom in hand, she gets up, dives for a volleyball and sends it through a hoop, scoring 10 points while narrowly avoiding a wayward dodgeball. Read more...

Photo: UCLA TFT alumnus Farzad Sangari will premiere his documentary about the UCLA Quidditch team. (Courtesy of BOND/360)

Arts, Arts Columns, Lifestyle

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October 10, 12:24 am

The pLAces you’ll go: Book Soup

There are more than 500 square miles of city surrounding UCLA’s campus, which takes up a minuscule fraction of that mileage. For such a big place, Los Angeles at times seems impossible to navigate. Read more...

Photo: Sunset Boulevard is home to Book Soup, a store filled with every kind of book imaginable – from science fiction to cooking. (Austin Yu/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Arts, Film & TV

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October 10, 12:19 am

Sundance Institute Story Lab sets scene for creative intensity

The Sundance Institute gave 10 writers with aims for careers in television the opportunity to have their work pulled apart and put back together in a week-long burst of creative intensity guided by peers and industry professionals. Read more...

Photo: The first Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab took place in Utah from Sept. 27-Oct. 2 at the Sundance Resort. It aimed to help emerging writers, both for television and online. Two of the 10 writers selected, Heather Marion and Crystal Liu, are UCLA alumnae. (Courtesy of Fred Hayes)


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