Melted candles, painted sugar skulls, bright marigolds, delicious pastries and photos line a brightly colored tablecloth. A traditional Dia de los Muertos altar tells a story and captures the memories of those who have passed. Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is traditionally celebrated in Mexico on Nov. 1 and 2. At UCLA, […]
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‘Smoothie Bowl Club’ provides ripe opportunity to merge health and taste
Strawberries, blueberries and acai are all fruits typically associated with a good smoothie. But there’s one fruit that both smoothie makers and consumers alike often overlook. “You need ripe bananas,” said Smoothie Bowl Club president Anne Wasserman. “Bananas are really the key to smoothie bowls.” Founded this year by Wasserman, a second-year undeclared student, and […]
Review: ‘Haunted Hill: Apocalypse’
Stress and fear permeate UCLA’s campus every October as students prepare to take their first midterms of the year. Ironically, one form of escape among students Tuesday night was “Haunted Hill: Apocalypse,” a one-night haunted house put on by the On-Campus Housing Council in the Covel Grand Horizon Room. Zombies, ghouls, cannibals and mad scientists […]
Student delivers frightful performance at Hollywood Horror Nights
Josh Shtein transforms into a butcher knife-wielding cannibal when he creeps on set for his job at Universal Studios Hollywood. The third-year sociology student works as a “scare actor” for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, an event featuring special Halloween-themed mazes, shows and scare zones based on television and movie franchises such as American Horror Story […]
UCLA Go Club gives students opportunity to express their culture
Xinru Hua frequently asks her father for help understanding the strategies of Go, a 3,000-year-old traditional Chinese board game. Hua, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, said her father instilled in her a love for Go when she was 7 years old by enrolling her in a professional Go school and practicing the game with her. […]
Flavors of Westwood: Alumni brothers share a taste of home through family business
Four brothers grew up in Central Mexico eating birote, a loaf of bread smothered with beans, sliced tomatoes, jalapenos and queso fresco, in a brick house with dirt floors. UCLA alumni Miguel Anaya and Fernando Anaya, along with their brothers Jorge Anaya and Javier Anaya, left behind their childhood home 42 years ago to cross […]
Beauty & Cosmetics promotes self-expression, consumer responsibility
Eunice Lee spends much of her day watching celebrity cosmetics tutorials on YouTube and scrolling through makeup aesthetics on Instagram. For many students the videos are just another way to procrastinate; however, for the fourth-year biology student, they’re part of her job. Lee is the president of UCLA’s Beauty & Cosmetics club, an organization for […]