The lights dimmed and the crowd built its dull murmur into loud cheering as Alana, Este and Danielle Haim skipped and jumped onto the stage full of energy. Read more...
Photo: (Leyla Kumble/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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August 7, 5:42 pm
HARD Summer festival provides electrifying EDM experience
The darkness of night blanketed thousands of festivalgoers at the main stage of HARD Summer as electronic dance music super duo Jack U harnessed the spirit of the crowd. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Drew Ressler)
Arts, Film & TV
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August 5, 2:17 pm
UCLA Quidditch team holds heads, brooms up in documentary ‘Mudbloods’
The best stories are those whose worlds prove so vivid and mesmerizing, that they make us crave to be a part of them. In 1997, J.K. Read more...
Photo: Premiering this October, “Mudbloods” follows the UCLA Quidditch team as they train for the Fifth Annual Quidditch World Cup in New York. Quidditch has been adapted from the “Harry Potter” books into an intercollegiate sport, broomsticks and all. (Courtesy of BOND/360)
Arts, Film & TV
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August 4, 1:05 am
School of Theater, Film and Television rises in rankings
The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) ranked third place in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 list of film schools this week, moving up one spot from last year. Read more...
Arts, Arts Columns
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August 4, 12:48 am
TFT alum tells history seventeen years in the making
After seventeen years in the making, Migdia Chinea is finally telling a story of her native Cuba. Chinea, who received a graduate degree in screenwriting from the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA, has worked as a writer on multiple television shows, including “Superboy,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The Facts of Life” and “Punky Brewster.” She has also directed a few of her own short films, “The Kninth Floor,” “Anonymous (Street Meat)” and her latest, “Old Havana and the Great Pimp of San Isidro.” “Old Havana and the Great Pimp of San Isidro” is a historical fiction story of 1910 Havana centering around a man named Alberto Yarini, the titular “Great Pimp of San Isidro.” At this time the U.S. Read more...
Photo: Migdia Chinea, an alumni of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, directs a shot for her short film “Prince of Old Havana,” which portrays the life of Alberto Yarini, otherwise known as “The Great Pimp of San Pedro.” The film was shot mainly in her home in Glendale, California. (Courtesy of Sian Chen)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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August 4, 12:46 am
‘Made in L.A.’ 2014 at Hammer Museum displays work by artists like Max Maslansky
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for more information. At first glance it seems to be just another painting on canvas. Read more...
Photo: Currently on display until Sept. 7 as part of the Hammer Museum’s biennial “Made in L.A. 2014,” Max Maslansky’s abstract-like paintings were inspired by vintage pornography stills from the late ’70s and early ’80s. Maslansky’s works are interested in exposing the subject matter’s depiction of intimacy, or lack thereof, in a comical way. (Courtesy of Brian Forrest)
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August 4, 12:41 am
Experimental jazz band Beep to play JazzPOP series
Beep is a band so open-minded and fluid that even the members are unable to put a finger on what type of music they play. “We play experimental jazz of sorts,” said Sam Ospovat, the band’s drummer. Read more...
Photo: (From left to right) Michael Coleman, Nate Brenner and Sam Ospovat of the band Beep jam in the studio. Beep, an electro-contemporary-jazz trio, will perform for the Hammer Museum’s annual summer concert series “JazzPOP.” (Courtesy of Hamilton Boyce)