“˜The Last DJ’ Who more fitting than Jim Ladd, one of the last free-form radio DJ’s, to introduce Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their Tuesday night show, as the band played its new album, “The Last DJ,” in its entirety at the Grand Olympic Auditorium? It’s not even too far a jump to conjecture […]
Author Archives: Daniel Miller
Westwood Room the Mt. Olympus of lunch eateries
Sitting at a table in the second floor Ackerman food court, working on my chicken burrito especial from Rubio’s, I imagine what it is like to taste the fruit of the gods. I envision Mt. Olympus ““ the Westwood Room and its training table meals. See, every day at lunchtime I watch satiated athletes stroll […]
Competitive eating as legit as football
He was in the zone. Looking past the eager press contingency and the rabid spectators, the valiant athlete ate until he could eat no more. “I need a bucket. I am going to throw up,” Anthony DeFrenza said. No chunks were blown in a competitive eating contest held Monday night in Hedrick Dining Hall. The […]
Clinic fails to bring life to its surgical performance
In the 1960s our parents listened to The Beatles and their parents could not understand how the music was deemed listenable. Strangely, it was easy to feel like one of those stodgy middle-aged parents circa 1965 at Clinic’s performance at the Palace on Friday night. It could be that Clinic, the members of which, like […]
Cricket may be unfamiliar, but proves itself respect-worthy
This summer I backpacked through Europe with two good friends. You know, the whole cliche ““ not a lot of money, bathing or shaving, and lots of sleeping on trains with transients. We spent the first portion of our trip in England. I fell in love with London and everything that makes it different from […]
UCLA grasps narrow win against Mexico
In the UCLA women’s soccer team’s 2-1 victory over the Mexican National Team at Drake Stadium Saturday, Mexico struck first as UCLA freshman Iris Mora scored in the ninth minute, striking the ball past Bruin goalkeeper Sarah Lombardo. Confused? Mora scored against her UCLA teammates because the Cancun, Mexico native, who played in all Mexico’s […]
Sweet victory over Cougars, 6-0
Kim Devine transferred to UCLA from BYU so she could play for a soccer team whose teammates “loved each other.” Devine got a chance to show her former teammates how much love the members of the UCLA women’s soccer team have for each other as the Bruins defeated the Cougars 6-0 yesterday ““ displaying unselfish […]