Hear This Not That: Tyler, The Creator’s album masks insecurities, Eminem’s reveals torment

Music fans can find it hard to decide which albums to stream and which to skip, considering the surplus of new music released. Each week, A&E columnist Sean Lee will compare two albums and recommend which one students should listen to. For Daily Bruin A&E’s Halloween issue, Lee compares the shock rap of Eminem’s album […]

UCLA Go Club gives students opportunity to express their culture

Xinru Hua frequently asks her father for help understanding the strategies of Go, a 3,000-year-old traditional Chinese board game. Hua, a fourth-year applied mathematics student, said her father instilled in her a love for Go when she was 7 years old by enrolling her in a professional Go school and practicing the game with her. […]

Flavors of Westwood: Alumni brothers share a taste of home through family business

Four brothers grew up in Central Mexico eating birote, a loaf of bread smothered with beans, sliced tomatoes, jalapenos and queso fresco, in a brick house with dirt floors. UCLA alumni Miguel Anaya and Fernando Anaya, along with their brothers Jorge Anaya and Javier Anaya, left behind their childhood home 42 years ago to cross […]

Graduate student animated about pushing envelope with cartoons

Tyler Rice turned a late night craving for tacos into a surreal experience. The graduate animation student screened her original animated short “Taco Terror” at NewFilmmakers Los Angeles on Saturday. The film follows two men who get the munchies from marijuana, order tacos and proceed to witness some paranormal sights, all in the span of […]

Photo: Pinches Tacos brings homestyle Mexican food to Westwood

Pinches Tacos opened its seventh location in Westwood on Wednesday and gave away free tacos from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. Customers filled the inside of the pink restaurant, which displayed skeletons wearing hats, graffiti art and painted brick patches. Miguel Anaya runs Pinches Tacos with his brother Jorge Anaya. Miguel Anaya said each tortilla […]

UCLA marching band supports alumnus Mark Harmon on ‘The Ellen Show’

UCLA marching band students are used to the spotlight; they frequently perform for thousands of fans at football games. But on Oct. 13, a few performers got a taste of a different kind of fame. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres invited the UCLA marching band to perform on her show as part of “Mark Harmon Week,” a […]

UCLA students’ love of Taylor Swift goes back years

Alex Blake knows students don’t have to love country to love Taylor Swift. At his small private middle school, 2016 alumnus Blake rode the bus home with the other kids. Even though they all hated most of the country songs on the radio, when Swift’s “Our Song” came on, the students on the bus screamed […]