Kimbra should no longer be somebody you used to know. In fact, the New Zealand indie-pop singer deserves even higher acclaim for the release of her new album “Primal Heart” than she did for her stint with Gotye in 2011. On the 12-track album, Kimbra brings back the indulgent numbers similar to her 2014 work […]
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Global Melodies: Students explore new sounds, find home in Music of Bali Ensemble
A sequence of repeating numbers written on a whiteboard guides percussionists through a swelling, fast-paced musical performance. The song “Siwanata,” complete with hefty drumbeats overlain with reverberating chimes, was just one of the few numbers that the members of the Music of Bali Ensemble rehearsed during their weekly Tuesday class. The group’s participants tapped their […]
Movie review: ‘Rampage’
“Rampage” at least lives up to its title. The science fiction action film displays seemingly endless scenes of gigantic animals destroying buildings, planes and everything else in their paths. Primatologist Davis Okoye (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) joins forces with former genetic engineer Dr. Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris) to neutralize a giant wolf, a vicious crocodile […]
Students respond to women-centric Getty exhibition with art show in Powell
One student piece at Thursday’s upcoming Powell exhibit was inspired by an image of a woman beheading her enemy with a tent pole. The historical document “Judith Slaying Holofernes” was one of many manuscripts displayed in the Getty Center’s 2017 exhibition “Illuminating Women in the Medieval World.” After receiving a preview of the Getty’s exhibition, […]
Japanese martial art fights stress, promotes cultural awareness
Kashima-Shinryu equips its practitioners with skills to face off against cavalrymen and giant savage boars. However, since giant boars rarely terrorize UCLA students on their daily commutes to class, some practitioners on campus have found other uses for the Japanese martial art. William Bodiford, an Asian languages and cultures professor, started the Kashima-Shinryu Club at […]
Graduate dance students explore body movement, performance space
This post was updated March 1 at 7:02 p.m. Dancers will embody divining rods, gasp for air and groove like they’re in a nightclub in “glory us weirdos.” These dance moves are part of Friday’s show, which will present graduate dance students Kristianne Salcines and Levi Gonzalez’s in-progress thesis works. “glory us weirdos” consists of two […]
Gallery: Lecture uses tamales to discuss food justice problems
San Francisco-based organization Seed the Commons brought together aspects of the tamale-making process to highlight justice issues in the international food system.