Designing costumes for TNT’s “I Am the Night” just kept getting weirder and weirder, Rhona Meyers said. From Little Red Riding Hood coats to Masonic cuff links and last-minute Hawaiian print dresses, the UCLA alumna said designing for the miniseries was full of unexpected coincidences that tied reality to the show’s Black Dahlia era. Meyers […]
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Architects discuss innovative designs inspired by research into social changes
It was normal to live without a kitchen in early 20th-century Manhattan. Architect Anna Puigjaner uses her research on housing trends, such as the perception of kitchens in Manhattan, to understand how society came to define the home. As part of a lecture series put on by the UCLA Architecture and Urban Design department, Puigjaner […]
Album review: ‘Weezer (Black Album)’ trades nostalgia for confused genre shifts and tired lyrics
Weezer’s 13th studio album is experimental, but not for the sake of experimenting. Accurately embodied in their masked appearance on the album cover, “Weezer (Black Album)” is almost unrecognizable as a Weezer album. The band forfeits the characteristically gritty, unrefined tone of prior albums for an underwhelming attempt at conformity to an “experimental” modern pop […]
Authors Tressie McMillan Cottom and Roxane Gay talk black feminism at Hammer event
Tressie McMillan Cottom and Roxane Gay discussed beauty standards, racism and HGTV celebrities all in one conversation. The authors and cultural critics held a conversation at the Hammer Museum on Wednesday evening. While Cottom tackled black feminist and social justice issues with levity, Gay prompted her with questions about the former’s new collection of personal […]
Play ‘Once on This Island’ to feature Caribbean culture, lessons on empathy
Stories can be passed around a campfire, be told across generations and unite communities, said Irvin Mason Jr. It was this notion that led him to direct the musical “Once on This Island.” Based on a 1985 novel by Rosa Guy, the story takes place in the Caribbean Islands and follows Ti Moune, a girl […]
UCLA diversity report shows general trend toward increased representation in TV
Women and people of color continue to be left out of Hollywood, but the 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report details the proportional representation that is slowly and steadily underway. Released Feb. 21 by UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, the report is the sixth in an annual series and examines gender and racial diversity […]
Movie review: Hysteric cinematography makes dance-horror film ‘Climax’ disturbingly satisfying
Gaspar Noé’s “Climax” is a wild roller coaster ride of sex, drugs and techno. The French filmmaker’s latest movie follows the supposedly true story of a French dance troupe practicing for a tour at a remote boarding school in the 1990s. In celebration of a successful rehearsal, the dance practice transforms into a lively party […]