The president of UCLA’s Cooking and Baking Club once burned water while making pasta. Ten years later, Elliott Cheung stood in the Sunset Canyon Vista Room at the front of a steel kitchen table cluttered with cheddar cheese, Jello mix and oregano, overseeing a club member as she seasoned her salsa. “Not too much,” Cheung […]
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Sounds of Schoenberg: The Afro-Cuban Batá drums
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the Afro-Cuban Batá, a set of sacred drums used to honor the African Yoruba Gods. Four-year-old Melena Francis […]
Romance adds new spin for Salsa Society dance partners
Amalia Ledesma and Ernesto Martinez had danced together a few times before at Thursday night Street Salsa at the Bruin Bear, but the natural cadence of live music sparked something new between them at an open invitation salsa social in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. As they matched their steps to the salsa beat and to […]
UCLA students find nostalgia in casual, edgy ’90s fashion throwbacks
Selena Lomeli cherishes a ’90s maxi jean dress with gold details that her mother has passed down to her. “When I think of ’90s, I think of my mom,” said Lomeli, a third-year cognitive science student. Lomeli is one of many students on campus reverting back to plastic chokers, denim jeans and crop tops. Students […]
Album review: ‘Wiped Out!’
The Neighbourhood’s arrival onto the Los Angeles music scene in 2011 was marked with teenage angst supported by a motley mixture of synths and a little too much echoey reverb. The group’s first EPs, particularly “I’m Sorry…,” were reminiscent of the conflicted, hormone-driven era of the late 2000s. Fast-forwarding to 2015, The Neighbourhood has improved […]
Hype overshadows true purpose of No Shave November campaign
Amit Pujari felt like a gorilla at a November wedding when he was 16 years old. The first-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student was not clad in a leftover, full-bodied Halloween costume; he was embracing an untamed, full beard for No Shave November. It was Pujari’s first time participating in No Shave November, a […]
Sounds of Schoenberg: The West African gondze
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the West African gondze, a single-stringed lute fiddle comprised of horsehair, wood and lizard and goat skin. To […]