The most underrated college experience is failure. For the past four years, I’ve written stories about arts and entertainment that range in topics – from a pie contest to the JazzReggae Festival to horror films to furniture art installations to celebrity sightings. It’s almost always been unexpected, but amazing nonetheless. But behind every article, there’s […]
Author Archives: Kelsey Rocha
Spring Sing 2015: Bruin Harmony
Since 2007, Bruin Harmony has won eight awards at Spring Sing for their performances of Top 40 hits. This year, the group is bringing a jazz classic to Pauley Pavilion, said Prescott Rynewicz, a second-year aerospace engineering student and member of Bruin Harmony. “(The song) very much takes on a new side of what Bruin […]
Spring Sing 2015: Wait For It
For third-year English student and singer Gabby Puyat, the wait is over. Her band, Wait For It, is the first electronic dance music group in Spring Sing history. Two-thirds of the band will perform: Puyat and Bentley Montes, who attended UCLA for two years. The third bandmate, Curtis Kale, is not a UCLA student and […]
Web series trend ignites new possibilities for filmmakers, students
He was the oldest person at the YouTube Web series workshop by at least 30 years. He said he only understood one in four words used, and he said it was thrilling. Although UCLA alumnus Sam Ingraffia worked in the film and television industry for more than 35 years, the realm of Web series production […]
Movie review: “The Harvest”
“The Harvest” Directed by John McNaughton Elephant Eye Films 2 paws While the idea of a creepy organ-harvesting family sounds like a good horror film, “The Harvest” is a dried-up movie-watching experience. The horror-thriller independent film, which will open Friday at the Arena Cinema in Hollywood, starts by introducing two children in socially isolating circumstances. […]
TV Review: ‘Game of Thrones’
On Tuesday, dedicated fans waited for hours outside the Regency Bruin Theatre, fat raindrops pelting their heads, with hopes of seeing the season five premiere of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” The Undergraduate Students Association Council’s Campus Events Commission hosted the screening of the popular show, a television adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s fantasy novel […]
Graduate students showcase works in second of MFA Exhibition series
A space expedition, a ceramic city, a superhero reinvention and a scene from the Israel-Palestine conflict comprise the second exhibition in the graduate students’ series, MFA Exhibition No. 2. The exhibition will run through Friday in the New Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center. As the second of four, this exhibition includes installations from […]