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. At […]
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Q&A: Comedian Quincy Jones talks performing at UCLA, terminal illness
After a doctor told him he had one year to live, stand-up comic and terminal cancer patient Quincy Jones said his one wish was to air his own comedy special. With the help of Ellen DeGeneres and a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $50,000, HBO is set to make Jones’ dream a reality June 2 […]
Adidas sneakers provide UCLA population with a blast from the past
The retro footwear of famous athletes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and “Pistol Pete” Maravich has stepped back into fashion on UCLA’s campus. Students have been wearing both the Superstar and Stan Smith Adidas models, which were released in 1969 and 1971, respectively. Both shoes have the Adidas logo on the back and can come with slight alterations […]
Vegan Ventures: Fruit Gallery
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. The claustrophobically small space […]
UCLA students read things they wrote as kids
Editor’s Note: This segment is inspired by the podcast Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, which invites listeners to “reflect on their own lives, to connect with who they used to be, and to draw a line that connects the past and the present”. Sometimes people stumble upon remnants of their past – photos […]
Art gallery brings students closer to incarcerated LA youth
In a short poem, Diamond penned that love is like a bullet wound that is barely healing. The teenage boy did not intend to write about love in the context of violence; it was an organic thought. But Diamond felt comfortable using a violent metaphor, his mentor said. Growing up around guns made him feel […]
Love Apptually: Bumbling along in the quest for love
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. I […]