Guitarist strikes chord with crowd Jefferson Airplane founder, Kaukonen, plays at Wadsworth By Rodney Tanaka Daily Bruin Staff Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen performed onstage with Janis Joplin in the 1960s. He founded the band Jefferson Airplane. Yet the roots of his career reside with a different group: the Boy Scouts. "This Boy Scout troop I was […]
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Exhibit celebrates Persian New Year
Exhibit celebrates Persian New Year By Rodney Tanaka Daily Bruin Staff The first day of spring is a time for nature’s renewal. For Iranians, the day also represents a fresh start to a new year. The new exhibit at the Kerckhoff Art Gallery, sponsored by UCLA’s Iranian Students Group, celebrates the Persian New Year, Norouz, […]
Lazarus creates ’24th Day’ despite hectic rehearsals
Lazarus creates ’24th Day’ despite hectic rehearsals By Jennifer Richmond Daily Bruin Senior Staff Paul Lazarus never thought he’d get "The 24th Day" off the ground. With his hectic schedule and the unforgiving time commitments of his two actors, Noah Wyle and Peter Berg, Lazarus was forced to put the show together in only three […]
Camera offers unique shot at bridging cultural gaps during travel
Camera offers unique shot at bridging cultural gaps during travel Taking meaningful vacation photos is a snap, seminar says By Sona Stepanian Daily Bruin Contributor Usually, vacation photos are simple snapshots of people waving at a camera. But for professional photographers Lisl Dennis and Nevada Wier, they are a way of staying in touch with […]
Performance group wanders from Bard originals
Performance group wanders from Bard originals Students act out modern twists of Shakespeare’s plays By Allyson Harwood Daily Bruin Contributor While it would seem normal for the Shakespeare Reading and Performance Group to put on scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, this quarter’s "Night of Scenes" will consist primarily of acts by modern authors, not the English […]
Creativity of Italian cinema bursts onto screen
Creativity of Italian cinema bursts onto screen Tornatore explores influence of movies in ‘The Star Maker’ By Dina Gachman Daily Bruin Contributor Italian films are bursting through the seams of the typically closed minds of the Academy, and Giuseppe Tornatore has a lot to do with this explosion. The worldwide success of Tornatore’s "Cinema Paradiso," […]
Student conductor has all the Wright moves
Student conductor has all the Wright moves By Kathleen Rhames Daily Bruin Contributor They say opportunity only knocks once, but for UCLA undergraduate Elizabeth Wright, things are looking brighter than ever. "My goal is to be a working female conductor," she says. "Music these days is such an under-appreciated thing." If this is the case, […]