While browsing through a vintage shop, Artemis Mansur found an embroidered vest. She checked the tag, learned that it was handmade in Vietnam in the 1950s, and decided it was so special that she had to buy it, she said. The second-year communication and psychology student and fourth-year design media arts student Maddy Pease share […]
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Budding Los Angeles: Agnetix’s innovative lights illuminate role of technology in cannabis cultivation
Thirty years ago, buying cannabis was difficult, expensive and illegal. Buying cannabis in 2019 is somewhere between picking up a prescription from a pharmacy and buying beer from a liquor store. Join columnist John Tudhope each week as he visits cannabis companies in Los Angeles and discusses the budding industry. Most people who visited […]
Costumes add depth to the diverse range of characters, settings this Oscar season
From 16th-century Scotland to modern Wakanda, this year’s Oscar-nominated costume designs transported audiences to different worlds. The designers behind costumes for all of this year’s Oscar-nominated films will discuss their work Saturday at UCLA’s Ninth Annual Sketch to Screen Costume Design Panel and Celebration. The featured panelists will include the nominated designers, as well as […]
Hybrid dance performance to subvert ‘stuckness’ with humor, self-reflection
Pearl Marill will break out a life-size puppet of herself on stage as a symbol of self-reflection. Marill, an artist well-acquainted with San Francisco’s performance scene, will present her show “You Self Help Me” at Glorya Kaufman Hall on Friday and Saturday. Marill said her performance – a meditation on her personal struggles – will […]
Poet Susan Wheeler comes to UCLA to read, discuss her experimental works
The fun in following Susan Wheeler’s work is getting lost in it, said Stephen Yenser, the curator of poetry readings at UCLA’s Hammer Museum. Wheeler, author and professor at Princeton University, has one novel and six poetry collections under her belt. She will conduct a poetry reading and Q&A at the Hammer on Thursday. She […]
Comedy duo creates bizarre world with new and familiar characters in offbeat show
Self-improvement advertisements occasionally will interrupt The Ian and Austin “Show.” The series of preplanned interludes within the comedy show are meant to imitate short commercials from YouTube or television. Ian Michaels and alumnus Austin Nasso, the show’s namesakes, will host the variety show Thursday at The Improv Space, incorporating stand-up, character bits and impressions. Nasso […]
Restaurant review: Jon & Vinny’s fine Italian dining entices, but for a price
An industrial stone pizza oven, chefs gracefully tossing salt into their pasta and a glass of Cabernet make for a quintessential Italian dining experience at Jon & Vinny’s. The restaurant on San Vicente Boulevard opened mid-January, offering the same diverse Italian menu as Jon & Vinny’s original location in Fairfax, which opened in 2015 and […]