Gabriel Kwarteng posed with his girlfriend over FaceTime to take their photo for the Bruin Consent Coalition’s latest photo gallery. Kwarteng and Paulette Orhii, a second-year human biology and society student, are one of the couples whose photographs will line the Kerckhoff Art Gallery walls for the new campaign “#Relationshipgoals,” a photo gallery featuring 20 […]
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Alumna’s personal experiences add realism to acting in ‘This Land’
Audience members of “This Land” can experience about 150 years of Los Angeles history without ever having to leave the comfort of their seats. The historical play will run Friday through Nov. 13 at the Company of Angels theater in Downtown Los Angeles. “This Land” follows 12 characters’ claim to the land that is modern […]
UCLA alum produces romantic thriller with focus on dark, erotic themes
“Thirst Street” transforms Paris from the city of love into the city of one-night stands. A romantic thriller produced by UCLA alumnus Josh Mandel and released Sept. 20, “Thirst Street” follows American flight attendant Gina and her obsession with a burlesque nightclub bartender named Jérôme. Mandel said the filmmaking team explored themes touching on the […]
Concert Review: St. Vincent
St. Vincent alternated between her signature brightly colored and angular electric guitars 13 times at Paramount Studios. Each instrument change added another level of vibrancy to an impressive display of talent that was equally charged musically as it was visually. Annie Clark, a multiinstrumentalist who plays under the stage name St. Vincent, debuted her “Fear […]
Alumna cooks up videos of healthy, tasty recipes for Buzzfeed
Crystal Hatch created one of her first cooking tutorials during her senior year at UCLA. The alumna filmed herself turning fresh-picked lemons into raspberry lemonade. The video landed her a job as a video producer for BuzzFeed’s Goodful page. She now makes cooking tutorials almost every week. As a producer, the UCLA alumna films and […]
Sister musicians teach master class at Guatemalan music conservatory
Hanna and Sarah Yocuté taught a master class in Guatemala and caught their flight back to the United States all within a span of three hours. Guatemala’s national music conservatory, Conservatorio Nacional de Música Germán Alcántara, invited the sister musicians to conduct a master class in August for a group of around 15 students of […]
Student documents emotions, experiences in original songs
Danielle Bongiovanni wrote her song “Bees” a year after dreaming someone put a swarm of the buzzing insects in her chest. “Bees” is also the first song Bongiovanni shared on SoundCloud, which now hosts seven of the second-year theater student’s original songs. She said she combines her love for poetry and life experiences to create […]