Cycling, plates spinning on sticks and bicycles floating in midair all have one thing in common: balance. The Fowler Museum’s “Up in the Air” event features the “World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou” and “Round Trip: Bicycling Asia Minor, 1891” exhibitions as well as an interactive performance by juggler John Whitfield on Sunday at […]
Tag Archives: db-story-c3
UCLA swim and dive returns to finish season after intense winter conditioning
Stepping into the second half of their season, seniors on the UCLA swim and dive team are beginning to face a series of lasts. This weekend will be no different as the Bruins go into their last home meet of the season at the Spieker Aquatics Center. The divers will be facing Kansas while the […]
Cross Cut: Iranian filmmakers seek artistic freedom
In film editing, cross-cutting is the technique of cutting between actions occurring at the same time, but in different locations. In Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, foreign cinema rarely takes the spotlight from the plethora of local releases. Columnist Eileen Li discovers foreign cinema screenings in the L.A. area each week, placing […]
Winter Movie Preview
The first months of the year are generally a cold, desolate time at the theaters, a period of audience fodder several steps below the Oscar-campaigning pieces of November and December. That isn’t the case in Los Angeles, a town notorious for being neither cold nor desolate, as last year’s festival hopefuls and foreign hits steadily […]
Second Take: Kanye West and Paul McCartney come together for new track
Kanye West sure knows how to end the year on a high note. On Dec. 31, the Chicago-based rapper quietly released the first song since his 2013 platinum-selling album “Yeezus.” A duo with Beatles-legend Paul McCartney, “Only One” features West singing – not rapping – while McCartney dances along the keyboard, harmonizing with the auto-tuned […]
Post-holiday season prompts regifting, repurposing unwanted presents
‘Twas the season to be jolly. But now, as the last of the fa la la’s echo 2014 out the door, one may find him or herself left with an old copy of Charles Dickens from a best friend’s annual white elephant gift exchange or a frumpy, oversized sweater from Grandma that hasn’t made any […]
Students celebrate winter holidays with gift exchanges
Now is the time of year when De Neve Dining Hall starts serving leftover turkey, water falls from the sky and winter break looms ominously over the student body. As in every year, students mark the return to classic holiday themes – red and white clothing, holiday sweaters on Bruinwalk – signifying that the season […]