Lucky fans were in for a treat on Monday night at the Regency Theatre in Westwood as tickets were distributed on a first-come, first-served basis for the “‘Modern Family’ Fan Appreciation Day” hosted by USA Network.
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Katie Shepherd: UC should make exceptions to admissions rules for veterans
There are a lot of things I never got used to growing up in a military family. One of the only aspects of military life that I did learn to expect was its uncertainty: uncertainty in where I would be living in a year, uncertainty in when my father would be returning from overseas, uncertainty […]
Editorial: ‘Affirmative action bake sale’ was in bad taste
The “affirmative action bake sale” hosted Friday on Bruin Walk by Young Americans for Liberty was a crude and offensive stunt. It did nothing but damage the campus conversation on the topic as well as the reputation of the organization. The group certainly had the right to hold the event, misguided as it was. But […]
Love|Hate: Does Arcade Fire live up to its hype?
Ever since their surprising win for album of the year at the Grammys in 2011, Arcade Fire has risen in public acclaim to something like ’90s Radiohead: too popular to be indie, too indie to be commercial. The increased scrutiny comes with backlashes, and backlashes of backlashes, and the upcoming “Reflektor,” their follow-up to breakout […]
Dean Waterman to resign June 2015, hopes to teach more
Christopher Waterman stood in the theater lobby four hours before his first Musicians’ Union gig and nervously played his bass arrangement over and over. He was 19 years old and had recently left his home in Florida to attend college in Boston and become a professional musician – a decision that would bring him to […]
Q&A: Judd Winick shares ‘storyboards’ behind ‘Pedro and Me’
In 1994, a young cartoonist named Judd Winick entered the cast of MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco.” It was there he met Pedro Zamora, a young AIDS educator and fellow cast member who made waves as one of the first openly gay, HIV-positive Cuban men on television. A few months after the season ended, […]
Q&A: UCLA professor discusses work on ‘Yulan’
Paul Chihara, UCLA professor of theory and composition and head of the Visual Media program, composed the score for the Chinese dance-acrobatic ballet “Yulan: World of Love,” which premiered at East Los Angeles College this week. The ballet will be showing at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Oct. 25 and 26. Daily Bruin’s Natalie Chudnovsky talked to […]