Author Archives: Natalie Tate

After hearing the report over his police radio, Weegee would race to the scene of the crime and get to work. But his work didn’t involve arresting suspects or holding gangsters at gunpoint. He would go solely to capture the image on film, to be put in print for the next day’s newspapers. “The images […]

Doug Aitken is proud to classify himself as a Los Angeles native. Having grown up in Redondo Beach and Palos Verdes, he didn’t journey too far from home in his decision to attend Pasadena’s prestigious Art Center College of Design. And after spending about a decade in New York, Aitken has finally returned to sunnier […]

Former judge Sol Wachtler boasts an impressive resume. As chief justice of the highest court of New York state ““ the Court of Appeals ““ he stood as one of the state’s greatest jurists who upheld the freedom of the press and strongly advocated women’s and minority rights. Yet when Sharon Dolovich, a UCLA professor […]

Though he was buried in a vast, treasure-filled tomb, King Tutankhamun probably never would have dreamed that thousands of years later, a comparable sum would be spent to share his story with the world. Indeed, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new rotating exhibit “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” is estimated […]

In 1994, the Chinese government dreamed of building the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. It would span nearly a mile across, tower 575 feet above the world’s third-longest river, and cost approximately $24 billion dollars. But when they acted on their idea by initiating construction of the Three Gorges Dam, the Chinese government willingly […]

Most parents dread the day that their child announces his or her intentions of becoming a professional actor, instead wishing that he or she would pick a future in a more sensible or stable career. Yet some UCLA students have found a way to satisfy their parents’ expectations or their own professional goals while still […]

Although her professors at UCLA pushed her to pursue her writing talent, UCLA alumna Buff Given didn’t follow that path until receiving similar advice from an entirely different source ““ her astrologist. Upon returning to school following a lengthy hiatus, Given received her master’s from UCLA’s Department of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1978 and […]