Hearing his voice surface on a real track from his new, real album was like coming up for a breath of fresh air after being submerged in water. After several disappointing postponements of the album, fans can finally emerge from Frank’s ocean. Frank Ocean’s long-anticipated second studio album, “Blonde,” was in many ways what listeners […]
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M+B art gallery puts on innovative food-based exhibition
The specials on the menu at M+B art gallery include a smashed Big Mac in a plexiglass box, two ceramic sardines in a dish and a splattering of spaghetti on linen. The food-themed pieces comprise Los Angeles gallery M+B’s current exhibition, “Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish,” which launched July 7 and runs until Sept. 2.The […]
UCLA alum, chef creates unique LA Mexican cuisine
Like most students, Ray Garcia didn’t start teaching himself how to cook until he moved out of his dorm room and into an apartment. Now UCLA alumnus Garcia is the head chef at Broken Spanish, his second restaurant which he opened in June 2015 in downtown Los Angeles. Since discovering a latent passion for food in […]
Movie review: ‘Sausage Party’
It takes a certain kind of twisted psyche to create an animated movie deserving of an R-rating. But leave it to Seth Rogen and his team of writers to produce a computer-generated story so unapologetically offensive that rated R is hardly an adequate warning. “Sausage Party” does not belong next to animated Disney flicks on store […]
Concert Review: Coldplay at the Rose Bowl
Chris Martin will never eat bananas before a concert again. While performing at the “Head Full of Dreams” tour on Saturday, Martin apologized to fans in the packed Rose Bowl stadium for his gassiness during the first three songs. The lead singer and frontman for alternative rock band Coldplay cited his pre-performance snack as the […]
Adult film star speaks to psychology class about sex, pornography
The Kinsey Pavilion 1200B chalkboard read “SEX” in big letters. Standing in front of the lecture hall full of students was adult film actress Jessica Drake, who said growing up in a conservative and religious family environment made her view sex negatively. “I had a lot of fear-based sex education,” Drake said. “All it did […]
Students, faculty experiment with multimedia to produce ‘Live Cinema’
Ruoxuan Li flipped through Francis Ford Coppola’s photo album and found the image she was looking for. Behind the protective sleeve was an aging photo of young twin boys from the 1920s. The School of Theater, Film and Television alumna stared at the picture and retreated into a warehouse full of clothing. Li returned to […]