David Sedaris returns annually to Royce Hall while on tour, but Tuesday was his first time in culottes at UCLA. “An Evening with David Sedaris” followed a practiced formula: The night was prefaced by an annual student humor writing contest put on by the Student Committee for the Arts and featured a reading and Q&A […]
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Inspired by mother, student models career around independence
CoryAnne Roberts was sitting in her seventh grade religion class when her friend came across pictures of her mom on Tumblr. Her friend’s discovery sparked a frenzied Internet search that led classmates and her teacher to hover around the laptop to view an old video of her mother on YouTube. In the video, her mother […]
Love Apptually: Leaving with a crop of dissatisfaction … and beans
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. Like […]
Love | Hate: Does the art of fashion benefit from celebrity models at the Met Gala?
Calvin Klein, Givenchy and countless other high-fashion names brought their futuristic and famed designs to the red carpet of the Museum of Metropolitan Art in New York City on Monday night. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Benefit, the annual fashion event better known as the Met Gala, fundraises for the museum’s costume design […]
Alumna fashions Myabetic case to destigmatize diabetes
Kyrra Richards hid her secret in a stark, black nylon pouch. The bleak container was filled with lancet needles, syringes and insulin pumps: evidence of the Type 1 diabetes she tried to conceal from friends, agents and casting directors. The UCLA alumna, who has no family history of the disease, said she was ashamed to […]
Video Game Review: ‘Dark Souls III’
Many games try to scare, but few are actually tense since there’s no genuine threat in a virtual world. However, “Dark Souls III” is truly nerve-wracking. The “Souls” series solves this problem and makes the stakes of the game real with punishing combat difficulty and the recoverable loss of all the player’s currency upon their […]
Vegan Ventures: Chandni
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 first bite of […]