‘Smoothie Bowl Club’ provides ripe opportunity to merge health and taste

Strawberries, blueberries and acai are all fruits typically associated with a good smoothie. But there’s one fruit that both smoothie makers and consumers alike often overlook. “You need ripe bananas,” said Smoothie Bowl Club president Anne Wasserman. “Bananas are really the key to smoothie bowls.” Founded this year by Wasserman, a second-year undeclared student, and […]

Alum panelists discuss Asian-American representation in popular media

Chris Dinh’s favorite film growing up was “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” His favorite character was Short Round, a young Asian boy who helps the famed archaeologist on his adventure. It wasn’t until much later that he realized Short Round’s true significance for him as an Asian-American. “The fact that my favorite movie […]

International students await first American Halloween experience

October marks the start of the spooky season – costume shops begin to pop up, haunted houses open their doors and festive decorations cover lawns across the country. With so much anticipation surrounding Halloween at UCLA, it is easy to forget that not every country in the world shares the hype. At UCLA, 12.6 percent […]

Review: ‘Haunted Hill: Apocalypse’

Stress and fear permeate UCLA’s campus every October as students prepare to take their first midterms of the year. Ironically, one form of escape among students Tuesday night was “Haunted Hill: Apocalypse,” a one-night haunted house put on by the On-Campus Housing Council in the Covel Grand Horizon Room. Zombies, ghouls, cannibals and mad scientists […]

Second Take: New Disney Channel Halloween movies should go straight to the grave

No new Halloween movies premiered on Disney Channel this October – and that’s just fine. Cheesy Halloween flicks have been a staple for Disney Channel since the first Disney Channel Original Movie “Under Wraps” premiered in 1997. The movie, which follows three adolescent friends who accidentally reawaken a mummy, was the first of several Halloween-themed […]

Student delivers frightful performance at Hollywood Horror Nights

Josh Shtein transforms into a butcher knife-wielding cannibal when he creeps on set for his job at Universal Studios Hollywood. The third-year sociology student works as a “scare actor” for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, an event featuring special Halloween-themed mazes, shows and scare zones based on television and movie franchises such as American Horror Story […]

Hear This Not That: Tyler, The Creator’s album masks insecurities, Eminem’s reveals torment

Music fans can find it hard to decide which albums to stream and which to skip, considering the surplus of new music released. Each week, A&E columnist Sean Lee will compare two albums and recommend which one students should listen to. For Daily Bruin A&E’s Halloween issue, Lee compares the shock rap of Eminem’s album […]