Donald Margulies watched the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann when he was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, New York, in 1961. The future playwright became horrified by the news coverage showing images of emaciated bodies left in piles on the grounds of concentration camps. That coverage marked his first exposure to the […]
Author Archives: Daniel Maraccini
UCLA musician to pitch extended play at Fowler Out Loud
Charlie Bond used to sit for hours alone at his desk, recording instruments and mixing tracks for his solo albums. Now Bond is part of a band whose members are collaborating to bring the alternative rock songs he created in solitude to the live stage. The fourth-year music student released his first solo extended play […]
Professor’s “A Mexican Trilogy” shows cultural pressures on immigrants
When Jose Luis Valenzuela was debating whether or not to join the Chicano theater movement of the 1960s, a professor asked if he wanted to make history or let it pass by him. Nearly 50 years later, the UCLA directing professor wants to use the stage to improve the way people think about American immigrants. […]
LA’s diverse restaurants give international students a taste of home
Wendy Liu’s breakfast in her hometown of Taipei, Taiwan, often includes Taiwanese egg rolls made from a fried flour and corn starch batter wrapped around an egg. The first-year physiological science student said she can find the food at almost any restaurant in Taipei. “They remind me of my daily life back home,” Liu said. […]
Alumna hopes to inspire passion for Colombian dance within LA youth
When Maria Diaz auditioned for the UCLA world arts and cultures’ dance program, she never had any formal dance training. Now the alumna runs her own studio and hopes to provide young people with opportunities she didn’t have as a child. Diaz is a co-director and instructor at Fuego y Sabor Latino Dance Studio, which opened […]
Q&A: Producer, UCLA alumnus discusses upcoming ‘Black Panther’ film
When Nate Moore was a child, he was fascinated by Black Panther comic books. He said the superhero’s mysterious persona and technologically advanced home country provided an escape from his small hometown of Clovis, California. The UCLA alumnus is a producer of the upcoming “Black Panther” stand-alone film, which is scheduled to premiere in February […]
Downtown Bookfest highlights LA’s independent literary scene
On a cloudy day in Grand Park, festivalgoers congregated for readings, book recommendations and a celebration of all the Los Angeles independent literary scene has to offer. The Downtown Bookfest, which took place Saturday in Grand Park, featured poetry readings, tributes to late authors and pop up shops that sold books from local small presses. […]