To highlight the delicious perks of her vegan lifestyle, Daily Bruin staffer Alejandra Reyes-Velarde showcases 10 diverse vegan restaurants in the West Los Angeles area. She will be joined by Daily Bruin staffer William Thorne to bring a meat eater’s perspective to vegan cuisine. They will alternate reviewing a restaurant each week. Every day of […]
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Nurse, entrepreneur brings new spin on Taiwanese dessert to Westwood
A machine fills a bowl with mounds of what looked like torn pieces of ribbon. Fresh boba, hot mochi balls, melted Nutella and condensed milk joins the icy hills. Frostalicious, which opened on April 27, serves Taiwanese shaved ice on Weyburn Avenue in Westwood. Created by Ellen Liao, the shop is her American dream, a […]
Love Apptually: Connecting with people you Happn to pass by
Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. To help thousands of loveless students, but mostly themselves, Correia and Green will test run and rate five dating apps over the course of one quarter. “Let’s […]
Vegan Ventures: The Vegan Joint
To highlight the delicious perks of her vegan lifestyle, Daily Bruin staffer Alejandra Reyes-Velarde showcases 10 diverse vegan restaurants in the West Los Angeles area. She will be joined by Daily Bruin staffer William Thorne to bring a meat-eating perspective to vegan cuisine. They will alternate reviewing a restaurant each week. My method for getting […]
Downtown Bookfest highlights LA’s independent literary scene
On a cloudy day in Grand Park, festivalgoers congregated for readings, book recommendations and a celebration of all the Los Angeles independent literary scene has to offer. The Downtown Bookfest, which took place Saturday in Grand Park, featured poetry readings, tributes to late authors and pop up shops that sold books from local small presses. […]
Book Review: ‘The Raven King’
In the small magical town of Henrietta, Virginia, a girl named Blue Sargent befriends four boys: a rebel, a prince, a shadow and a ghost. The four boys were known as the Raven Boys from the nearby private academy Blue swore to never step foot on, but throughout the course of Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven […]
Student’s love of baking blooms into sourdough bread business
At the start of the day, Margaret LaGaly feeds her sourdough starter using flour ground from the wheat she plucked from her backyard. This is the start of the daylong cooking process. She waits for the dough to rise and places it in her home oven to bake. “I love the simplicity of the 24-hour […]