Yoon Lee’s mother taught her how to knit in the sixth grade, using chopsticks as needles. The third-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student has been knitting ever since and started the i-KNIT-iative knitting club her first year at UCLA. At the club’s Monday night meeting, she joined approximately 15 other students at a round […]
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UCLA alum produces romantic thriller with focus on dark, erotic themes
“Thirst Street” transforms Paris from the city of love into the city of one-night stands. A romantic thriller produced by UCLA alumnus Josh Mandel and released Sept. 20, “Thirst Street” follows American flight attendant Gina and her obsession with a burlesque nightclub bartender named Jérôme. Mandel said the filmmaking team explored themes touching on the […]
Rieber Hall students develop banana mail service, send messages on fruit
A group of students on the Hill have a new idea for relaying messages – sending them on bananas. Banana Grahams allows students to send messages on bananas to anyone living on the Hill. The service has only been up and running for about a week, yet more than 100 students have followed the group’s […]
Dance Break: Koreos workshop embraces inner K-pop star, adventurous movements
Daily Bruin columnist Christi Carras’ limited dance background consists of bingeing episodes of “So You Think You Can Dance,” grapevining her way through high school show choir and stumbling through rehearsals at a daycarelike dance studio until the age of 8. As a personal experiment, she attended workshops and lessons for 10 campus dance groups […]
Distinguished professor introduces Maya art, culture to Powell rotunda
Powell Library’s rotunda has traded in books for vibrant ponchos. “When you come into Powell, you can’t miss it,” said Patricia Greenfield, a distinguished professor of psychology and the curator of “Weaving Generations Together,” an exhibit consisting of Maya weavings and embroideries. Greenfield, who acquired the pieces during her trips to Nabenchauk, a hamlet in […]
Design media arts student fulfills dreams through surreal films
Joaquin Barlow turned a dream about his death into a film project that consisted of Russian ants, steak and sugar water. He said the Russian ants were just figments of his imagination conjured up in a dream, and his reveries serve as just one of his many sources of inspiration. “They come from random places […]
Concert Review: St. Vincent
St. Vincent alternated between her signature brightly colored and angular electric guitars 13 times at Paramount Studios. Each instrument change added another level of vibrancy to an impressive display of talent that was equally charged musically as it was visually. Annie Clark, a multiinstrumentalist who plays under the stage name St. Vincent, debuted her “Fear […]