Sydney Bowie was filming her documentary “¡BOZA!” in an apartment in Morocco when someone asked if she wanted to see a boat. The alumna and director of the film said she thought there had been an error in translation, unsure of how a boat meant to carry immigrants across the Mediterranean to Spain could fit […]
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‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 recap – Episode 5: ‘The Bells’
Winter is here: The final season of “Game of Thrones” is one of the most highly anticipated television events of the last decade. Follow our columnists as they explore students’ weekly reactions as an iconic era of pop culture comes to an end. Beware, spoilers lie ahead in this special editor’s take. Jet fuel may […]
Dan Navarro discusses growth in music career starting with his time at UCLA
Dan Navarro, a UCLA alumnus, returned to campus in 2005 for a guest appearance after kicking off his music career. At the end of the class, students formed a line that stretched to the back door of the lecture hall waiting to talk to him, said Peter Rutenberg, Navarro’s longtime friend. Over the course of […]
New symposium blends narratives of riots, city planning
This post was updated on May 15 at 4:42 p.m. Jacqueline Barrios used a Charles Dickens novel to retell the history of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Using the 1780 Gordon Riots in London as depicted in Dickens’ “Barnaby Rudge,” the English graduate student taught her high school students from the James A. Foshay Learning […]
Album review: Mac DeMarco refuses to be kept in a box in his latest ‘Here Comes The Cowboy’
Wandering through a lonely plane of self-reflection, Mac DeMarco finds a new satirical voice to share with the indie genre. Mac Demarco’s first release since “This Old Dog” in 2017, the new album lacks narrative flow and a stable tone, but banks on repetition to mercilessly drive home a message meaningless to everyone but DeMarco […]
Concert review: Alec Benjamin lives up to his image with a satisfying amount of angst
Heartbreak, but then make it casual. Though Alec Benjamin is only 24 years old, many of the songs on his debut record deal with the loss of childhood innocence and his discovery of life’s less-than picturesque realities. The pop singer-songwriter took the El Rey Theatre stage Thursday, singing over a dozen tracks, including 11 from […]
Theater review: ‘Les Misérables’ shines with hope with its focus on character relationships
Outstretched hands and lingering embraces reveal that loving another person really is to see the face of God. The “Les Misérables” national tour, directed by Laurence Connor and James Powell, will bring its tragic story to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre through June 2. Based on Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name, the musical follows […]