I am going to spare you the BS about the Golden Globes, and instead tell it to you like it really is. The people who put on the Golden Globes are misleading the public. I know and everyone else knows the recipients proclaimed to be the “best” really weren’t at all. After watching the “middle […]
Author Archives: CJ Yu
Editing videos, DVDs for kids a silly scam
In elementary school, one of my classmates, Eddie, became the laughingstock of Mrs. Takata’s second grade class when we found out that his mom wouldn’t let him watch “The Little Mermaid.” Being the immature brats that we were, my classmates and I teased him to no end. His mother’s reason was that she felt Ariel’s […]
Students call the shots on “˜UCLA: Next’
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of campus, the production of UCLA’s own television magazine show “UCLA: Next” continues its second year at Studio 3 in Melnitz Hall with more stories to tell and new students to produce them. Debuting in fall 2001 to a greater L.A. broadcast audience, the show has since become one […]
Start movie hopping, save money
If you’ve ever seen packs of lost teenagers scrutinizing movie times inside the local multiplex, or families with suspiciously large shopping bags concealing enough food inside to last for the entire day, then you’ve probably spotted movie hoppers before. These movie hoppers are people that buy a ticket early in the afternoon and then sneak […]
Festival enlivens old-world culture with educational, artistic shtick
While many may only associate Yiddish culture with short catchphrases such as “putz” and “chutzpah,” a weeklong event starting next Friday, “The Art of Yiddish ““ A Tour de Force,” hopes to shed more light on the often forgotten culture and its history. The California Institute for Yiddish Language and Culture returns to UCLA with […]
Media arts exhibits on display at Hammer Museum and on TV
As part of the biannual monthlong experimental media arts festival in Los Angeles this month, “TV or NOT TV” finally reaches Westwood, bringing the strange and the bizarre to the UCLA Hammer Museum and the EDA space in Suite 104 of the Kinross Building this weekend. The festival finishes its run in Westwood with a […]
UCLA student finds success with film project
It’s not often that film students get their “big breaks” immediately after college, but producer Lance Williams’ career as a professional filmmaker has taken off though he’s still a UCLA student. While Williams is still in his second year of graduate school, calling his most recent project just another student film would be an understatement. […]