The past few years, co-captain Sunny Shah said UCLA Nashaa – the Bollywood-fusion dance team – seemed to be having a dry spell. After winning second place at Bollywood America in 2010, the team hadn’t placed at the national competition for three years. However, after placing first at Bollywood Berkeley in February – their bid […]
Author Archives: Natalie Green
Q&A: Alumna talks receiving fellowship, hopes for her project
Riding her bike around Los Angeles while wearing a mask, UCLA Design | Media Arts alumna Pinar Yoldas became fascinated with air pollution. On April 9, Yoldas was named as one of the recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her proposal, “Distilling the Sky.” With an architectural structure, Yoldas said she hopes […]
arTistic Attention: TA Nathan Zeidman turns to painting to engage with world
With the new series “arTistic Attention,” A&E will feature the very people whose office hours we really should go to more and explore their arts and entertainment-geared interests to find out what really makes them tick. If you know an artsy TA who deserves to be featured, email us at ae@media.ucla.edu. Masters of fine arts […]
Man bun trend grows across UCLA campus
Now that the weather is warming up and studying for midterms helps keep showers few and far between, many students have begun pulling up that pesky long hair into a bun. Typically, buns – a coiled-up hairdo at the back of the head – are associated with women boasting longer locks that are easier to […]
A&E Winter Lifestyle | Theater Preview
Paralleling the temperatures falling below Los Angeles’ typical 70 degrees, winter quarter often marks a slump in mood, grades and activities for many UCLA students. Although leaving hibernation – also known as a bed and Netflix account – seems daunting, the winter season does bring reasons to brave the outdoors. Here are a few A&E-filled;, […]
‘Through Positive Eyes’ advocacy project to commemorate World AIDS Day
When Professor David Gere began showing students a book, “A Broken Landscape,” he was met with a visible reaction, seen in their tears and heard in their responses. Compiled by South African, London-based photographer Gideon Mendel, the book pairs together images of people living with HIV with their first-person narratives. Gere said his students couldn’t help […]
Theater & More: ‘The Daisy Theatre’
With each performance, Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett returned to a single stage to select from more than 30 handmade marionettes on standby for the night’s audience. It has been a little less than a year since the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA first introduced the L.A. community to Burkett and his Theatre […]