[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Artist explores heaven on earth

In 1997, a war broke in a rural Chinese province near the Tibetan border. But it wasn’t a war over politics or religion ““ it was a battle between towns over who had the right to declare itself Shangri-La, the place that inspired the fictional town in James Hilton’s 1933 novel “Lost Horizon,” in order […]

[Orientation Issue] Arts and Entertainment: Experience L.A. beyond Westwood by bus

Walking down from the dorms to go to places like Starbucks and Diddy Riese was considered a big Friday night excursion when I first came to UCLA. I would walk down with a big herd of freshmen and we felt as though we had really gone out and done something exciting ““ but maybe that […]

Tuning out

When second-year computer science student Angie Yen was looking up the lineup to WHFS’s annual music festival, she was startled to learn the station no longer existed. A Spanish language station had succeeded the Washington/Baltimore rock station’s frequency on the FM dial. But WHFS still has a presence on the airwaves of an FM talk […]

Soloist marches to the beat of her own cello using multimedia effects

Cellist Maya Beiser prefers not to have an orchestra or even a piano back her up during her solo performances because she’d rather do the solo lines, vocals and accompaniments herself. The cellist, notorious for playing to multi-track recordings while singing, will perform, among other pieces, the Los Angeles premiere of Steve Reich’s “Cello Counterpoint” […]

City Slickers

The first time Michael Alden saw the music video for his group’s country Billboard chart single, he was in Dykstra Hall. Alden, a third-year music student, along with his sisters, identical twins Lauren Mills and Dana Burke, who graduated from UCLA in 2002, make up Malibu Storm ““ a country group whose success has snowballed […]