2016 was the year of the celebrity-endorsed Super Bowl commercial. On Sunday, everyone from Christopher Walken to Helen Mirren to Jeff Goldblum and Lil Wayne made their best, most random pitches to the 111.9 million viewers at home. And it better be worth it, with each 30-second spot alongside the biggest sporting event in the […]
Author Archives: Emanuela Boisbouvier
Q&A: Musician from student jazz band Swingers on musical reinvention, performance
The Swingers looked up to jazz artists like Freddie Hubbard and Charlie Parker, yet never replicated their performances exactly. The members of this seven-piece student jazz band used their love for classic jazz music to reinvent it in their own unique way. Joseph Kwon, a second-year jazz ethnomusicology student and organizer of the group, practices […]
Student filmmakers find ways around roadblocks in location, budget
Tanner Powell arranged to shoot at Piazza D’Angelo, an Italian restaurant near San Francisco, certain of having a smooth shooting day. However, the sound of sprinklers and leaf blowers disrupted the filming of “Working Class Heroes” because the owner had forgotten to warn the employee in charge of opening for business that morning. “It went […]
Alumnus goes from doodling in Powell to showcasing his art
Tony Hong never considered psychology, his undergraduate major, to be a calling or passion when he began studying at UCLA in 1995. Instead, he was known by his peers for drawing dudes with big nipples and baggy underwear. After eating Rubio’s for dinner, he would sit and doodle at the four-person desk closest to the […]
Three UCLA students jam for partygoers in ‘The Stoop Series’
Julia Mallord tuned her guitar as she sat on a stoop in the darkness. Kevin Valle readjusted the height of the microphone as Luke Aronson hung up colorful tie-dye tapestries on the back wall. Aronson took the guitar from Mallord, a second-year sociology student, and began playing “Calling Out to You,” the song he performed […]