Second Take: With ‘Old Town Road’ the memes have won, but music quality has lost

Collaborations can do a lot for a track. For some artists, they add credibility; for others, diversity. For Lil Nas X, it created a record-breaking cultural phenomenon. Currently in its sixth week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus broke the one-week streaming […]

Director of ¡BOZA! immerses herself documenting experience of migration to Spain

Sydney Bowie was filming her documentary “¡BOZA!” in an apartment in Morocco when someone asked if she wanted to see a boat. The alumna and director of the film said she thought there had been an error in translation, unsure of how a boat meant to carry immigrants across the Mediterranean to Spain could fit […]

New symposium blends narratives of riots, city planning

This post was updated on May 15 at 4:42 p.m. Jacqueline Barrios used a Charles Dickens novel to retell the history of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Using the 1780 Gordon Riots in London as depicted in Dickens’ “Barnaby Rudge,” the English graduate student taught her high school students from the James A. Foshay Learning […]

Global music event to feature Korean percussion, reveals spread across cultures

The sound of drums that originated in South Korea can be heard around the world, said Katherine In-Young Lee. The spread of music genres from one region to others will be explored in “Global Musics and Musical Communities,” a two-day conference and concert hosted by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. The event will […]

Undergraduate theater students share inspiration behind new one-act productions

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television will present two one-act undergraduate productions Thursday through Saturday at Theater 1330 in Macgowan Hall. The 30-minute acts, titled “Moon River” and “4.48 Psychosis,” are directed by students Ebony Priddie and Mira Saccoccio Winick, respectively. The Daily Bruin spoke with students involved in both productions about the […]

Guest lecturer explores the interpretation of video games through a queer lens

Bonnie Ruberg sees parallels to their queer experiences in video games like “Octodad.” Within the game, players fulfill the role of an octopus pretending to be a human father, which Ruberg said resonated with their own experience as a nonbinary person. Ruberg, an assistant professor in the department of informatics at UC Irvine, discussed how […]

Green Screens film festival aims to educate UCLA community on environmental issues

Cultured meat, or meat grown in a lab using animal cells, is an up-and-coming sustainable alternative to products of the traditional meat industry, said Paul Kurek. A film detailing the necessity for new meat options will be screened Monday as a part of the Green Screens Sustainability Film Festival. Kurek, a graduate student in the […]