The Daily Bruin revised my life plans in the best way possible -30-

I would probably still be trying to become an opera singer if it wasn’t for the Daily Bruin. I came to UCLA nontraditional in my desired career path but absolutely un-extraordinary in every other way. I’d spent the four years prior at an arts high school, where I’d studied opera performance and spent most of […]

Concert review: Taylor Swift at the Rose Bowl

Taylor Swift’s “reputation” tour crystallized her transformation from saccharine sweetheart to serpentine superstar. But her performance suggested that the metamorphosis has been all on her own terms. Swift radiated unapologetic self-confidence at the opening night performance of the Los Angeles leg of her “reputation” tour. The set list, which primarily featured the edgier songs of […]

Student-led clothing company Vespucci goes green with hemp-based streetwear

Three of Vespucci’s founders had similar reactions when they first moved from the pristine beaches and lush hills of Oahu to the concrete jungle of the U.S. mainland: “Yuck.” Their response was to the unavoidable pollution that filled the sidewalks, highways and skylines of the West Coast cities they’d moved to after high school – […]

The Quad: UCLA administration’s response to fire sparks student reaction

UCLA canceled Wednesday afternoon classes because the Skirball fire near campus made it difficult for some students and faculty to commute. An early Bruin Alert said students should consult their instructors as to whether to attend classes. At about 11 a.m., the university issued an updated alert canceling classes beginning at or after noon. Some […]

Students protest ending of DACA program, discuss concerns for future

UCLA students joined thousands of demonstrators gathered in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday after President Donald Trump’s administration announced it will end a program that deferred the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented individuals brought to the United States as children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals […]

Opera review: ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’

A lovesick poet, a goddess disguised as a man and a slew of drunken students walk into a tavern. So begins Los Angeles Opera’s current production of Jacques Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann,” the story of an oft-inebriated writer named Hoffmann (Vittorio Grigolo) recounting his failed experiences with three past lovers before realizing that his […]