The Improv Space hosts Welcome Week to showcase comedy to new students

The lights were still on late Friday night inside the small theater near Westwood’s In-N-Out. A group of improv artists gathered together on stage in front of the black curtain for their 30-minute improvised comedy set. The Improv Space on Gayley Avenue will hold its annual Welcome Week from Monday to Sunday. UCLA students can […]

Food Day 2015 raises public awareness about healthy food

BY COCO WANG A&E contributor cwang@media.ucla.edu Mark Jones grew up learning about the value of food from his father, who worked in urban and homeless communities as a master gardener in Los Angeles. “I was fortunate to have a father with a green thumb,” said Jones, who is now the owner of Big Day Catering […]

Chinese Student Association to perform ‘The Butterfly Lovers’

Tears fall down Yingtai Zhu’s cheeks as she leans toward the grave of her beloved Liang. Played by second-year business economics student Xiaoyi Chen, Zhu is a young Chinese girl fighting for her love in an ancient feudal society. The Chinese Student Association will hold their annual Heritage Night at Schoenberg Hall Saturday. This year, […]

UCLA graduate student cultivates identity through mushroom art

In the corner of a UCLA graduate studio, mushrooms grow on a pair of jeans, a toy lizard and a knit pullover. For his exhibition, Design | Media Arts graduate student Peter Lu said he decided on a more traditional and tangible approach instead of using media technology: planting mushrooms on everyday things. Lu said […]

Shakespeare Company pens contemporary translation of ‘Henry IV Part I’

It was 11 p.m. on a Friday night, but the lights in Ackerman Union 2408 were still on. Fourteen students gathered together and chanted the Bard’s lines. They are members of the Shakespeare Company at UCLA and will present “Henry IV, Part I” Thursday for open rehearsal and Friday and Saturday for formal performances in […]