Winning a ticket to this year’s Bruin Bash will take a little bit of luck. An online lottery opened Friday morning for the annual event that is co-hosted by the Campus Events Commission and the Cultural Affairs Commission. This year, Bruin Bash will take place in Pauley Pavilion on Monday, Sept. 19, with a maximum capacity […]
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Book Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two’
“Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two” opens at the close. Nine years after the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was published, the newest story in the saga of the Boy Who Lived picks up right where the last book left off. “The Cursed Child,” published July 31, is the script […]
Second Take: End of ‘Tower of Terror’ ride shows Disney’s indifference
On a dark and miserable January night, guests of Disney California Adventure’s Hollywood Tower Hotel will plummet 13 stories down an elevator shaft and into a dimension of sound, sight and mind for the last time. From that night on, parkgoers will no longer be able to enter “The Twilight Zone.” Sadly, there are no […]
UCLA ‘Pokemon Go’ players try to catch ’em all
UCLA students have transformed from pupils to Pokemon trainers while searching for Pikachus and Charizards around UCLA’s new virtual Pokestops. Released July 6, the “Pokemon Go” app by Nintendo and Niantic has gained millions of players, earning them over $1 million per day just on iOS. After almost a month of playing, many UCLA students […]
Q&A: Christoph Bull discusses his musical contribution to ‘Ghostbusters’
Christoph Bull brought the “Ghostbusters” soundtrack to life on his neighborhood church organ. Bull, an adjunct associate organ professor in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, recorded the organ music for the new “Ghostbusters” movie score at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles over the course of two days in May. Film composer […]
Album review: ‘Warm on a Cold Night’
With their debut album “Warm on a Cold Night,” British pop duo HONNE attempts to persuade the world they feel the most deeply and emotively of all male pop singers. Their invocation of smooth, synth-laden jazz and soul provides a pleasant listening experience, but the superficiality of the lyrics causes HONNE’s supposedly intense feelings to […]
Escape Hotel presents atmospheric, realistic puzzle-solving experience
The antique lobby of the Escape Hotel was dimly lit, smoky and adorned with candles and a Ouija board – eerie enough to put the haunted Overlook Hotel of “The Shining” to shame. Gaunt, skull-faced hotel workers looked on silently as my group and I completed a scavenger hunt, unlocked a box and rang the […]