The Laugh Bowl tradition will be resurrected Friday at UCLA. The comedy event was an annual occurrence until 2014, but disappeared until the Student Committee for the Arts brought it back. The event, which will take place in the Royce Hall west lobby, is a competition between stand-up comedians from UCLA, UC San Diego, UC […]
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Alumna seeks social justice through film, owns charitable wine company
This post was updated Feb. 7 at 2:18 p.m. Francis Ford Coppola’s career as a notable filmmaker and winemaker inspired Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein. Like Coppola, Goldstein is a UCLA alumna, actor, screenwriter, director and producer. As of November, she is also the first African-American female owner of a winery in Oregon. The eponymous Eunice Chiweshe […]
Award-winning authors to speak about unique experiences’ influence on their work
Young people think they must have everything figured out right after college to achieve success, said Jesmyn Ward. But the author hopes that by sharing the stories of her experience with fellow writer Mitchell Jackson, they can help dispel the myth of what is possible for students’ futures, she said. Ward and Mitchell will speak […]
Budding Los Angeles: Promise of a booming industry is bringing investment firm interest to cannabis
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. Cannabis investment is a high-risk, […]
‘SNL’ alum returns from 10-year career hiatus with own show, “Older and Wider”
Julia Sweeney took a break from Hollywood to raise her daughter in the Chicago suburbs. Years later, the actress and comedian returned to Los Angeles with several stories to tell, ready to launch back into show business. Sweeney’s new show “Older and Wider” will run at the Geffen Playhouse from Tuesday to Feb. 17. The […]
Author Angela Flournoy inspires students to draw on everyday experiences in workshop
Angela Flournoy said writing her first novel was like opening doors – if she didn’t find what she was looking for behind the first door, she would turn around and try another. Flournoy, a visiting associate professor, eventually published “The Turner House” in 2015 and has recently been named author-in-residence for the English department for […]
Alumna learns to land on her feet in life’s adventure through rock climbing
The most important lesson Alice Kao learned from rock climbing was how to fall down, she said. Kao, a UCLA alumna, founded Sender One Climbing in 2012 with co-founders Wes Chu and Wes Shih based on shared principles of self-discovery and a goal of connecting with others through climbing. She will return to UCLA on […]