As her feet pressed into the mat below her, Samantha Peszek took just a small stutter step backward.
For a short moment, she raised her arms, signaling the end of her routine on uneven bars and somberly forced her eyes toward the Olympic judges.
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Student band The Street Hearts to perform Valentine’s Day show
The sound of The Street Hearts will be coupled with the sight of candy hearts at WitZend on Valentine’s Day. This year, the student folk and soul band has been experimenting with the violin and expanding with genres such as jazz, blues and soul, which it will bring to Friday’s concert in Venice. The Street […]
Flavors of Westwood: Donna Sophia gives customers a taste of Italy
Sitting at the wooden bar table in Donna Sophia Trattoria & Pizzeria, with a gentle smile, Angela Gullotta gazes at the giant windows facing Gayley Avenue that are gleaming under the mellow afternoon sunlight. “(Westwood) is a special place in Los Angeles,” said Gullotta, the restaurant’s operator. “(It) is like a small village, very beautiful, […]
Student’s ‘Just Little Things’ blog grows big
Coming up with a good idea is only one of the 1,000 little things that makes Nancy Vu happy. And three years ago, Vu, now a first-year nursing student, came up with an idea. Vu’s multifaceted creation, called “Just Little Things,” features minimalist colored rectangles containing text describing the little things that make […]
Bruin becomes quarterfinalist on Jeopardy! College Championship
For the past few months, Ben Juster balanced his UCLA schoolwork with intensive trivia training – preparation for competing in the Jeopardy! College Championship. The fourth-year anthropology student is one of 15 quarterfinalists who competed in January for a Jeopardy! series. The episode he appears in will air Tuesday at 7 p.m. on ABC. He […]
Gymnastics claims close win over ASU at Pauley Pavilion
Redshirt junior Samantha Peszek swung around the bar once, twice, three times and landed firmly on the mat, solidifying a perfect routine. The judges rewarded her perfection with a perfect score of 10. One flawless performance on uneven bars may have been enough to help the UCLA women’s gymnastics team overtake the Arizona State Sun […]
WACsmash’D presents live arts, performance showcase
As the lighting dims to near-darkness, Olivia Schafer’s disembodied torso appears to dance above the black Marley floor. Schafer and the other dancers, clothed in white turtlenecks and jet-black pants, seem to float through the intricate routine. Inspired by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of “The War of the Worlds,” Schafer, a fourth-year world arts […]