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)
Last year, fraternity/sorority team Zeta Beta Tau and Kappa Alpha Theta did not make it into the Spring Sing lineup. The partnership proposed a musical that poked fun at the Occupy Wall Street movement which, much to the disappointment of the show’s co-creator Ben Kurzrock, was deemed a bit too controversial. Read more...
Photo: Last year, the fraternity and sorority team of Zeta Beta Tau and Kappa Alpha Theta did not make it into the Spring Sing lineup. This year, the partnership will perform a five-minute musical that provides a broad overview of the life of UCLA’s famed coach John Wooden (The UCLA Alumni Association)
Check out A&E's weeklong coverage of Spring Sing 2014, with profiles of this year's student musicians, dancers and actors participating in UCLA's oldest musical tradition. Read more...
A woman stands in a dark room with nothing but a chair. The scene is the most memorable for Yiran Wang, a first-year business economics student who plays the role of Jin Xiu. Read more...
Photo: (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff) First-year business economics student Yiran Wang stars in “Phantom of the Kun Opera,” the spring production of the Chinese Fantasy Theatre Group.
Viewfinders – miniature binocular-like objects – hang side by side from long strings along one wall of the Kerckhoff Art Gallery. Small and understated, the viewfinders appear to be ordinary, until one looks inside and a whole other three-dimensional world reveals itself. Read more...
Photo: Photographer James Payne’s 3-D American portraits showcase his friends, family and neighbors of the past 40 years. His photographs are currently displayed in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery as a part of the Cultural Affairs Commission’s Art Series. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)
What do you get when put together a microphone, some UCLA students and a stage? The answer: pure Shenanigans. This Friday in Kerckhoff Grand Salon at 9 p.m., The Shenanigans Comedy Club will host a live comedy show titled “Wait, were you always funny?” The lineup features up-and-coming comedians in the industry such as Jamar Malachi Neighbors (“Tosh.0,” “Loiter Squad”), Sherwin Arae (The Laugh Factory’s Fresh Faces), Aaron Weaver (Snubfest) and Melissa Villasenor (“America’s Got Talent”). Read more...
Photo: The Shenanigans Comedy Club will hit the stage of Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Friday night alongside comedians Jamar Malachi Neighbors, Sherwin Arae, Aaron Weaver and Melissa Villasenor in its show, “Wait, were you always funny?” (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)
Bursting with the ferocity of a volcano, Hawaiian fire goddess Pele will be gracing UCLA’s campus with her presence Saturday, channeling the power of her story through kahiko dancers. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Hui O ‘Imiloa Hawai’i club will host its 29th annual luau Saturday, showcasing the culture of Hawaii through dance, music and food. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin)
