Brothers Adam and Samir Hakim’s first performance in front of family was an impromptu concert at their cousin’s wedding last summer. The day before the event, they wrote songs about the marriage and the food at the wedding. Adam Hakim, a fourth-year mathematics and economics student, played chords on his guitar, and Samir Hakim, a […]
Author Archives: Eileen Li
Movie Review: ‘Interstellar’
In “Interstellar,” Christopher Nolan once again refracts time to create focus on the theme of love. In Nolan’s 2010 critically acclaimed “Inception,” characters live hours to entire lifetimes in dream worlds. To reverse the time lost, they need only wake up. However, in Nolan’s upcoming science-fiction adventure film “Interstellar,” time passed cannot be reversed. “Interstellar” […]
Theater & More: ‘WORDLESS!’
Comics, once considered niche market fare, have now become the quintessence of cool. In fact, people who read comic books even land dates nowadays, according to graphic novelist Art Spiegelman. In “WORDLESS!,” a hybrid performance of slides, talk and jazz performance, Spiegelman and composer Phillip Johnston guide the audience through a tour of the significant […]
Duo’s Fowler Out Loud concert to draw on Haitian Vodou influences
In Thursday’s musical performance at the UCLA Fowler Museum, the only instruments that Winter Schneider and Yves Figaro will use are a set of Haitian drums. The Fowler Museum’s concert series Fowler Out Loud will begin its performance season for the new academic year with a mix of song, dance, narration and drumming performed by […]
Bruin Food Truck Night welcomes students with a taste of LA
On the first day of class this quarter, many students chose to spend the day’s twilight hours socializing and snacking on munchies from some of Los Angeles’ most popular food trucks, all within a short walk from campus. Hanoolim, the Korean Culture Night production team and the Korean American Student Association (KASA) united students from […]
Movie Review: ‘Obvious Child’
Donna Stern, who makes people laugh as a profession, must stop joking and face her problems. “Obvious Child,” an indie film written and directed by newcomer Gillian Robespierre, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as part of its NEXT section, a non-competition category that showcases American films with bold storytelling. It tells the story […]
Hooligan Theatre Company adapts British comedy for spring production
Hooligan Theatre Company will transport students to 1960s Britain, a time and place where pornography was illegal but still, as such things do, found its way into households. UCLA’s entirely student-run theater company opens its spring production, “No Sex Please, We’re British” Friday at 8 p.m. at the Jan Popper Theater in Schoenberg Hall. “No […]