With play adaptations, it’s often difficult to pinpoint the transitional liberties taken by the film’s screenwriter. In regard to either his own scripted dialogue or character placements, there serves a question as to what may have been taken directly from the staged version, transported effortlessly onto film. “The Broken Circle Breakdown” makes some of the […]
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Album Review: ‘Matangi’ by M.I.A.
For an artist with as much commercial acceptance as M.I.A., it’s startling how consistently idiosyncratic and complex her music is. Much like Kanye West – a kindred spirit, sharing an outrageous self-styled celebrity persona – she seems to give off the air of a pop superstar while making serious, committed art. Of course, for any […]
OCHC to host revamped murder mystery theater on Hill
Between BBC’s “Sherlock” and CBS’s “Elementary,” solving murder mysteries has never looked more appealing, whether for an aspiring detective or an average UCLA college student. Wednesday, the On-Campus Housing Council will give students the opportunity to solve mock murder cases at Murder Mystery Theater, hosted in Carnesale Commons: Palisades (A-F) at 7 p.m. Running for […]
Throwback Thursday: Lou Reed’s rock ‘n’ roll leaves lasting mark on music
When Lou Reed, the singer, guitarist and poet behind the influential rock ‘n’ roll band the Velvet Underground, died Sunday from a liver-related ailment, it almost seemed fitting for a man that gave so much to music, including the beautifully haunting “Sunday Morning,” that he would die on a Sunday morning. Reed, who never achieved the […]
Former Disney Imagineer Marty Sklar brings spirit of innovation to UCLA
Following in the footsteps of past speakers, such as director of “The Lion King” Rob Minkoff, head of the Walt Disney Archives Dave Smith and Tony Award-winning Disney singer Lea Salonga, UCLA alumnus and former editor-in-chief of the Daily Bruin Marty Sklar helped innovate and shape the “Happiest Place on Earth,” more commonly known as Disneyland. […]
UCLA student’s new video game music performance group open to all levels
When UCLA cut Masha Lepire’s classical guitar program due to lack of funding last year, she worried that she would never have the opportunity to perform in a formal musical setting again. Lepire decided to solve this problem herself, combining her passion for music and lifelong love for gaming into creating a video game orchestra […]
Hammer Museum hosts Pokemon panel
It may look like the group of 30 people sitting in UCLA Hammer Museum’s Lindbrook Terrace staring intently at the Nintendo 3DSes in their laps are twiddling their thumbs, but each of them is battling foreign species, trading animals or exploring the new world of “Pokemon X and Y.” These 30 gamers participated at the […]