UCLA can be a big place, whether you’re a first-year freshman or a super senior. And Los Angeles is even larger. So I’m sure there are lots of questions you must have about the school we call our home and the giant post-modern mess of a city that surrounds it. That’s what this column is […]
Author Archives: Jake Tracer
From the editor
At various times last school year, I remember seeing copies of dB Magazine tiling the ground around newsstands across campus like a very ugly wallpaper. Not that the magazine is ugly, but it wasn’t designed to be some sort of protective ground covering. Once I even saw someone literally step on my face while walking […]
Kevin Smith defies all film dogmas
The first time I saw “Clerks” was at a double-feature, back-to-back screening at San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts. The other film screened that night was “Office Space,” and the night had a label that had something to do with disgruntled employees. Needless to say, it was a memorable experience, but not really because of […]
Scalping laws confusing
There’s an old journalism joke that “news is what happens to editors.” The idea is that small stories happen so frequently that the ones that end up on the pages of a newspaper are only there because they happened in the presence of someone with some control over the content of those news pages. You’re […]
Musicals glean inspiration from movies
When Marqui Konzem, a 2003 theater graduate, auditioned for the national touring cast of the musical version of “Saturday Night Fever,” she had no idea what the show was about. She had never seen the movie. But her mother was excited. “It’s a nostalgia thing,” Konzem said. “My mom said, “˜I remember “Saturday Night Fever.” […]
Archive keeps pictures in motion for students
It may be ironic, but one of the best-kept motion picture secrets at UCLA is also the biggest film collection not only on campus but also at any university in the United States. The UCLA Film and Television Archive, through its outreach arm ““ the Archive Research and Study Center ““ offers students unique access […]
Arts knowledge
In 1983, Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, wrote a book that changed the way people think about human intelligence. And while Gardner’s book “Frames of Mind” and the theory of multiple intelligences it outlines are now more than two decades old, their effects are still being […]