Monday, March 9

Spring Music Preview

For those music aficionados who are already stuck in a spring quarter slump on the first day or whose well-deserved Coachella wristbands will be noticeably absent from their wrists come mid-April, this season’s new releases will keep their disgruntled feelings at bay. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of 4AD, Warner Bros. Records, LL Recordings, Nonesuch Records, Pixiesmusic and Atlantic Records)


Mannis: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ comes to bittersweet end

Kids, it was almost 10 years ago when the cast of “How I Met Your Mother” took its first seat in that booth at MacLaren’s pub, ordered its usual and won over the hearts and funny bones of audiences around the world. Read more...

Photo: The cast of “How I Met Your Mother” will share its “last call” Monday night with the airing of the series finale. The ninth and final season focuses on Robin and Barney’s wedding weekend, and reveals the conclusive answer to the show’s titular quest. (Courtesy of CBS Broadcasting Inc.)





UCLA’s Sarah Summers to debut album ‘Lovely Little Things’

The title track on Sarah Summers’ debut album, “Lovely Little Things,” was almost relegated to the same forlorn fate as the archaic flip phone she originally recorded it on. Read more...

Photo: Second-year dance student Sarah Summers will release her debut album, “Lovely Little Things,” on March 24. The 11-track album is comprised of tracks Summers wrote both in high school and at UCLA. (Carolyn Francis/Daily Bruin)


UCLA alumnus builds Lego art brick by brick

Seventeen years ago, under the lights of his Christmas tree, six-year-old David Tracy unwrapped his present and began building his future, brick by brick. Read more...

Photo: (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff) “Chas” is a 16-inch sculpture made entirely of Lego bricks, crafted by UCLA alumnus and Lego artist David Tracy. Tracy’s work will be featured at the Forest Lawn art museum in Glendale until May 26.