May 25, 2010- Noodle Planet in Westwood is an Asian fusion Thai restaurant that caters its food mostly to locals with an American palate, but attracts customers of all sorts and kinds. Charlene Hsiao and Liyna Anwar report. [3:26]
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UCLA students and professors weigh in on the value of organic food
The trend toward organic food has people paying higher prices at Whole Foods Market for healthier products. Yet UCLA students, who are on a student budget, might not always have the luxury of buying organic foods. Given the choice, do students choose to strain their budgets and shop at Whole Foods? Find out what UCLA community members believe about organic food.
Students interpret artist Nick Cave’s soundsuits at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
For the past month, the Fowler Museum of Cultural History has been showing the works of Nick Cave, an American artist not to be confused with Nick Cave, the Australian musician. He specializes in making soundsuits, dancing costumes made up of all sorts of materials such as sequins and spin tops and ceramic birds; they make very interesting sounds when people dance in them. To promote artist interpretations of his work, the museum hosted a poetry reading inviting students from UCLA to read their creative stories or poems inspired by his costumes.