Each week in “Love Apptually,” Daily Bruin staffers Nico Correia and Natalie Green will take turns attempting to find love in all of the wrong places: dating applications. To help thousands of loveless students, but mostly themselves, Correia and Green will test run and rate five dating apps over the course of one quarter. I […]
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Album Review: ‘Dangerous Woman’
Ariana Grande has never been less apologetic than with her most recent album, “Dangerous Woman.” Last July, the tween-pop singer was caught on a bakery’s surveillance camera licking a doughnut she did not buy and then proclaiming “I hate America.” Grande’s words generated massive backlash from people who accused her of shaming overweight Americans. Grande […]
Second Take: Will the ‘Jumanji’ reboot be a downgrade from the childhood classic?
Hollywood’s recent trend of remaking timeless classics to exploit fan bases for higher profits clearly has no problem trampling all over my childhood favorites. The latest classic film to fall victim to the money-grabbing is “Jumanji,” the 1995 fantasy-adventure comedy film starring the late, great Robin Williams and co-starring Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst and Bradley […]
Second Take: Hollywood films inaccurately portray Greek Life, reinforce stereotypes
The mention of Greek life usually conjures up images of keg stands, loud music, bizarre rituals and shallow people. The Hollywood film industry reinforces these associations with attempts to bring collegiate Greek life to the big screen through movies like “Animal House” and its newest addition, “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” which premiered in Westwood on […]
The Quad: UCLA’s David Geffen Square proposal is a cry for money
UCLA, in an innovative and bold move in higher education, isn’t even waiting for the donation before doing the renaming anymore. Naturally, it involves David Geffen. The ever-growing list of things named after the “World’s Worst Philanthropist” is poised to expand again if the city of LA approves a proposal – which has been met […]
Editorial: Westwood bike lanes worth consideration, may enhance citywide mobility
We may never know what a Westwood Boulevard bike lane would look like if we give in to speculation prematurely. Safety has been the number one issue in the prolonged Westwood bike lane debate. Cyclists often use the street because it is the most direct route to UCLA and think a bike lane would make […]
Abhishek Shetty: UCLA must do more to prepare students for the threat of earthquakes
“Locked, loaded and ready to roll.” When a seismologist speaking about a fault line has to take on his alter persona of a cowboy about to shoot from the hip, it might be best to pay more attention. That was how Thomas H. Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center described the San Andreas […]