Author Archives: Laura Picklesimer

An interview over milk shakes at a Westwood diner with film director David Lynch. Watching Tim Robbins’ latest theater production on the UCLA campus. Spray-painting the Daily Bruin office.

Whether she’s studying the distant Laotian delicacy of cooked rats or earning a certificate in ice cream production in Pennsylvania, for food historian and UCLA alumna Linda Civitello, cuisine is much more than just something to eat.

Readers commonly turn to books as an escape from life’s problems. This weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, however, might leave attendees looking to books to return to reality.

Journalists can gain many opportunities from their line of work: traveling around the world, reporting on breaking news, or even meeting with prominent celebrities. For Susan Diamond, journalism was the unlikely impetus for a tale of intrigue and revenge that soon developed into her first novel, “What Goes Around.” Diamond, a writer and columnist for […]

Hitoshi Abe, the newly instated chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, finds a wealth of meaning behind the name of his home country, Japan. As the “Land of the Rising Sun” (a common translation of Nippon, the country’s Japanese name), Abe views Japan as a location on the periphery, with an unusual […]

Fourteen hours. That’s how long third-year theater student Sarah Gold is on campus per day. A typical school day last quarter involved rushing to her job at the BookZone in Ackerman at 7:45 a.m., working until 11:30 a.m., then attending theater classes from noon to 6 p.m. followed by production rehearsals for her play “A […]

Students pass by the Fowler Museum at UCLA every day heading to class and often frequent the museum’s various art exhibits, but most have never ventured into the A-level of the Fowler, a place where the more hidden aspects of art work go on: those of art conservation. Walk down one of these winding hallways […]