Determined to stake its claim over the perfect park bench that would become the film’s centerpiece, the student crew of “Small Talk” ventured out at the crack of dawn to begin a long but ultimately rewarding day of filming. Made with the UCLA chapter of the professional film fraternity Delta Kappa Alpha, “Small Talk” was […]
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Men’s tennis rallies from 0-2 hole to move on in NCAAs
Rain forced the UCLA men’s tennis team to relocate from Athens, Ga. to Atlanta for its NCAA quarterfinals match Sunday. A one-and-a-half hour trip factored into a match start time more than two hours later than originally planned. The No. 6-seeded Bruins seemed to start their day even later, losing out on the doubles point […]
Weekly food truck festival adds flavor to Westwood
A weekly food truck festival in Westwood will be held on Fridays in an effort to bring more nightlife to the Village. Nine food trucks will roll in next door to the iPic Theater as part of the Friday Night Holy Roller Food Truck Revival, which launched last week. Barry Fogel, the festival’s organizer, said […]
Spring Sing Profile: Random Voices A Cappella
For every major performance, UCLA’s all-female Random Voices A Capella chooses one encompassing word to focus its energy on. As the group prepares to cover an unrevealed song by the iconic Madonna for this year’s Spring Sing, its current word seems fitting: “passion.” “Random Voices has one of the lowest ranges I’ve heard in terms […]
Spring Sing Profile: The AM
Momentarily stepping aside from a dinner during a vacation in Lake George, N.Y., Bryan Welch, The AM’s vocalist and rhythm guitarist, listened to a recording his bandmate had sent him earlier that day. The recording, which would become the band’s Spring Sing song, ended with “You get the idea” – and Welch did. “It’s the […]
Spring Sing Profile: Alex Liu and Eric Jung
The first time Alex Liu and Eric Jung met was during a desperate scramble to fill empty spaces in a production roster. As a second-year student, Liu realized his fraternity’s 2011 Spring Sing production was lacking musicians and reached out to Jung, then a first-year, through recommendations by friends and fraternity brothers. Three Spring Sings […]
United Arab Society’s culture night aims to educate about conflicts
Growing up in Saudi Arabia, Jodutt Basrawi was not interested in learning about his Arab heritage. But after visiting family in Syria in 2011 – at the beginning a series of protests and revolutions in the Middle East called the Arab Spring – the second-year geology student became passionate his Arab identity. Basrawi and other […]