Full of funky sounds and musicians, 10-piece R&B; and soul collective The Primaries have been preparing for their Spring Sing debut Friday. The band members say they are ready, due to their evolution in the last year. The group has added more members, including third-year jazz studies student Joe Kwon, who has changed the band’s […]
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Spring Sing Profile: Courtney Randall and Beat Rhino
Courtney Randall dreamed about singing at Spring Sing before she’d even been accepted to UCLA. In 2011, her dream came true. Randall, a first-year at the time, took home the award for best overall entry and the honor of best solo artist the following year. Her 2014 performance will bring together two styles of music […]
Ice Cream Mondaes: Neveux Artisan Creamery
In the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, you’ll find a diverse mixture of ethnic eateries and hole-in-the-walls for late-night munching. A narrow brick storefront poking out between an optometrist’s office and a trendy thrift store is the home of one of these places: Neveux Artisan Creamery. Walking inside, we were greeted by dim lighting and […]
Movie Review: ‘Fed Up’
Sugar pervades our modern food system. It’s in cereal, yogurt and, of course, soda. However non-threatening these sugars may currently seem, after a viewing of the engaging documentary “Fed Up,” they will seem nothing short of sinister. “Fed Up” has a clear purpose: attacking the sugar industry for its direct connection to the worsening obesity […]
Movie Review: ‘Palo Alto’
The teenager – a pimply, awkward, lovesick species – has provided universal themes of angst, rebellion and loss of innocence for generations. Gia Coppola’s debut directorial film, “Palo Alto,” takes advantage of these recurring themes and offers a fresh, compelling look at the strife of the everyday teenager. Based on James Franco’s book of short […]
Gallery to display photographer’s decades-long series of 3-D portraits
Viewfinders – miniature binocular-like objects – hang side by side from long strings along one wall of the Kerckhoff Art Gallery. Small and understated, the viewfinders appear to be ordinary, until one looks inside and a whole other three-dimensional world reveals itself. The UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission’s Art Series is hosting photographer James Payne’s three-dimensional […]
Album Review: ‘I Never Learn’
Someone broke Lykke Li’s heart, and the results are an exquisite, if somewhat monochrome, self-portrait of pain and loneliness. “I Never Learn” is the Swedish singer-songwriter’s third album, the last in her self-described trilogy. The whimsical Li of “Youth Novels” and the edgier sound of “Wounded Rhymes” are gone, replaced by raw pain and the […]