Saturday, March 7

Spring Sing Profile: Hooligan Theatre Company

For Hooligan Theatre Company’s Spring Sing co-writers and directors Sara Ashley Beil and Aaron Fish, it was the moments after delivering their Spring Sing pitch to their ensemble after weeks of a creatively draining scripting process that were the most nerve-wracking. Read more...

Photo: The student-run Hooligan Theatre Company ensemble will take the stage at Spring Sing 2014 for the second time Friday, set to perform a variety number. Their performance will be a four-minute musical romp, centralized around an undisclosed theme. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)


Movie Review: ‘Million Dollar Arm’

Jon Hamm has a terrific salesperson persona. Partially because he’s beautiful, and partially because of his experience as Don Draper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” which Disney executives obviously caught wind of at some point between his first and 10th Emmy nomination. Read more...

Photo: (Walt Disney Studios)


Movie Review: ‘Godzilla’

In some ways, Godzilla is to Japan as Captain America is to the United States. He’s a symbol of hope and heroism at times most dire, such as when giant three-headed dragons arrive on meteorites from other planets. Read more...

Photo: Warner Bros.


Seniors showcase arts in final production

Ricki Quinn was sitting in a park in Barcelona when a woman walking her chihuahua caught her eye. “She threw her arms up and yelled ‘Siéntate’ at her dog,” Quinn said. Read more...

Photo: Ten fourth-year world arts and culture students will present “footage: The 2014 Senior Project Showcase,” featuring dance, film, spoken word and multimedia combinations in eight-minute pieces. The show is a culmination of the two-quarter-long World Arts and Cultures 186 course. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)


Spring Sing Profile: Bruin Harmony

Members of Bruin Harmony, UCLA’s only all-male a cappella group, have been rehearsing two-and-a-half hours a day, three times a week, for the last few months to perfect the marriage of their song and choreography in preparation for Spring Sing 2014. Read more...

Photo: All-male a cappella group Bruin Harmony will attempt to defend its Spring Sing 2013 title of best a cappella entry and best overall entry this Friday at Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)


Spring Sing Profile: Resonance A Cappella

To the students that made it through auditions in fall 2013, Darryn Wong said Resonance A Cappella was new. He said the group’s existing members could not promise them anything aside from the ability to join an upcoming group that they could call a family. Read more...

Photo: The youngest a cappella group performing at Friday’s Spring Sing, Resonance A Cappella has gone from its founding in October 2012 to performing in Pauley Pavilion for Spring Sing 2014. (Courtesy of Resonance A Cappella)


Spring Sing Profile: Random Voices A Cappella

For every major performance, UCLA’s all-female Random Voices A Capella chooses one encompassing word to focus its energy on. As the group prepares to cover an unrevealed song by the iconic Madonna for this year’s Spring Sing, its current word seems fitting: “passion.” “Random Voices has one of the lowest ranges I’ve heard in terms of all-girls groups, and this song in particular calls for a lot of power behind it,” said Sarah Summers, a second-year dance student. Read more...

Photo: Random Voices A Cappella, an all-female a cappella group, has been working on its Spring Sing 2014 performance since December, full of Madonna-inspired, edgy ’80s costumes. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)