A television room with a revolving cookie bar and a chocolate river flowing from a bundt cake crafted by English graduate student Alethia Shih brought the dream world of “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” to life in Tuesday’s Edible Book Festival in Powell Library Rotunda. Students and staff were invited to create edible replicas and […]
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Powell Library hosts Edible Book Festival
Students, faculty and alumni gathered in Powell Library Tuesday afternoon to take a bite out of reading. Watch the video to see highlights from this year’s Edible Book Festival.
Unsung Heroes: Captain Marvel rises as feminist superhero through modern updates
Marvel Comics has seen an increase in mainstream popularity with the recent release of several box office hits, such as “The Avengers.” Since its inception in 1939, the comic book company has created thousands of characters. While not all of them may get their due publicity because of a lack of exposure in the silver […]
Alum Howard Nourmand’s company Grand Jeté animates HBO documentary
Howard Nourmand first collaborated with Lena Dunham when designing the logo and opening title for HBO’s “Girls” and the brand identity of A Casual Romance Productions. The UCLA alumnus recently worked on another of Dunham’s projects to bring a popular children’s book character from the books’ pages to screens. Nourmand, who graduated in 2000, serves […]
UCLA alumni climb to top of pole dancing competition
UCLA alumna Drusilla Ray grasps the pole and pulls herself upward with a fluid movement. Spinning to the beat of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” Ray inverts herself using only her arms and goes through a complicated series of motions that defy gravity. Ray said she was surprised when she heard the results of the […]
Q&A: Alum Haley McHugh discusses theater, life as a professional actress
Haley McHugh entered the world of performance as a 3-year-old, cha-chaing across the stage in a community theater production. Since then, she founded and was president of her high school’s drama club, graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and starred in various professional projects, such as Horton Foote’s play “Lily Dale.” […]
UCLA graduate student directs play ‘Begonia’ to share Chinese tradition
An American man stands on stage, his body cloaked in a traditional red and gold Chinese robe, his head adorned with an extravagant headdress. The stark contrast between the actor’s origins and his role as a Chinese Peking opera performer highlights the two main messages Zhou Xiao Wei, a student of theater directing who goes […]