HOOLIGAN’s “Sister Act” changes up show’s musical, design conventions

Erin Harris will trade a sequined dancing dress for a nun’s habit in HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s production of “Sister Act.” Harris, a fourth-year economics student, plays Deloris Van Cartier, a nightclub dancer who is forced to abandon her love for performing and embrace life as a nun after witnessing her gangster boyfriend commit murder. While […]

Student creates alter ego to narrate personal meditations in poetic artwork

Cale Schoenberg expresses his life story through his alter ego, a charismatic yet troubled young man named Padawan. Schoenberg, a fourth-year philosophy student, developed the character who he said he used to created his written and visual art project called “Padwon.” In speaking about the project, Schoenberg refers to it as Padawan’s creation, although the […]

Dance group plans interactive J-pop performance for Geek Week

Two pairs of dancers will tell a story of jealousy and redemption when “Revolver” by Megurine Luka plays. Dressed in cosplay, a recreational dance group from UCLA will dance to a variety of Japanese pop and vocaloid songs Friday for Geek Week at Carnesale Commons. Kirigami, a subgroup of UCLA’s Japanese Animation Club, is not […]

Alum start women-owned bar in Filipinotown, creating good spirits for all

Roselma Samala and Christine Sumiller spent New Year’s Day of 2013 at Patricia Perez’s house, sipping mimosas and brainstorming ideas for the bar they wanted to open. One kickstarter and a few years later, the UCLA alumnae opened Genever in Filipinotown on March 7. Though the three women still hold day jobs in financial and […]

HOOLIGAN makes a splash with ‘The Little Mermaid’ rendition

HOOLIGAN Theatre Company’s production of “The Little Mermaid” will take place both under the sea and under the stars. Recreating the Broadway rendition of the famous children’s tale, HOOLIGAN will perform the show – along with its classic Alan Menken score – Thursday to Saturday at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center Amphitheater. The cast, led […]

Students respond to women-centric Getty exhibition with art show in Powell

One student piece at Thursday’s upcoming Powell exhibit was inspired by an image of a woman beheading her enemy with a tent pole. The historical document “Judith Slaying Holofernes” was one of many manuscripts displayed in the Getty Center’s 2017 exhibition “Illuminating Women in the Medieval World.” After receiving a preview of the Getty’s exhibition, […]

Former medical student brings behind-the-scene life of doctors to short film

Myra Aquino left a career in medicine to pursue filmmaking. But she used her experience as a medical student to direct a short film about a group of interns in a busy county hospital. Shot from March 17 to 21, Aquino’s short film “Take Care” follows the interns as they deal with a sudden, tragic […]