Category Archives: Arts

Dorm Dining: Despite overflow setback, rice cooker curry successful

Life on the Hill doesn’t exactly allow ample opportunity for experimentation with cooking, leading to a routine diet at the dining halls. Over the course of the quarter, columnist Andrew Warner sets out to break the culinary monotony of dorm life, armed with a rice cooker and a few pantry staples. We vegans and vegetarians […]

Alum transforms film-narrating experience into creative passion

When Dallas King’s mother brought him to the movie theaters as a child, he was tasked with more than just finding the right seat and the right-sized popcorn. He also had to interpret the movies for his mother, who was unable to see them. His mother’s blindness gave King a base for storytelling and an […]

Brothers plug students into music industry through sessions with artists

The Music Industry Committee at UCLA’s office hours aren’t held by professors – instead, they’re led by chart-topping musicians. Thursday, MIC at UCLA will host DJ Kaskade at Schoenberg Hall as part of the club’s six-part Office Hours series, which brings artists to campus to answer students’ questions about succeeding in the music business, said […]

Boulevard Bites: Hamasaku boasts quality sushi, vibrant presentation

Finding a delicious restaurant in Los Angeles can be difficult among the city’s thousands of dining options. To help readers narrow down their search, the Daily Bruin will review restaurants located along main street boulevards near UCLA each week. The only thing brighter than Hamasaku’s neon sign is the luminescent UPS logo of its parking […]

Collecting Creatives: Student fuses ceramics, dance to unveil the complexities of identity

Timna Naim wears masks during dance performances not to hide but to celebrate self-identity. A fourth-year world arts and cultures/dancestudent, Naim has combined dance and ceramics as a vehicle for expressing their self-identity as an Israeli-American genderqueer gay male-bodied individual, they said. Naim tries to generate conversations about individual identitiesby combining visual arts like clay […]

Q&A: Alum, casting director Tamara Hunter discusses work on ‘Hidden Figures’

Tamara Hunter casts characters who are capable of extraordinary feats. She’s worked in the casting department on such films as “The Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.” But for “Hidden Figures” she assembled a cast to play the mathematicians behind the task that was once considered impossible – sending a man into space. The film […]