UCLA’s research center that works with police departments to reduce racial profiling and other issues will relocate to New York following an endowment of $2.5 million. UCLA psychology professor Phillip Atiba Goff, who helped start the center in 2007, will also move to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to occupy […]
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Trailer Talk: ‘Game of Thrones’
Warning: This article contains plot spoilers. Movie and television trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. The queen has been disgraced, the […]
Party Flavors: Orange and chocolate biscotti
The party food landscape has become increasingly homogeneous, with its ubiquitous bag of Doritos rather than homemade fudge or stuffed mushrooms. Columnist Erin Nyren would like to bring back the house parties of yore, in which everyone cooked or baked something to share. As a child, biscotti was a saving grace to me: the one […]
Movie Review: ‘Zootopia’
There are some combinations in life that go together perfectly: peanut butter and jelly, cats and the Internet, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. In the new film “Zootopia,” Disney returns to the tried and tested formula of animation and talking animals. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. “Zootopia” follows the adventures of Judy Hopps […]
Love | Hate: Does sporting activewear make you look trendy or lazy?
Seas of neon tank tops and running shorts flood UCLA’s campus everyday as students trek to class. A prominent campus culture has developed with large numbers of students wearing athletic clothes to lectures. From yoga pants to basketball shorts, all forms of workout wear have seized contemporary fashion. Is this rising trend based on practicality […]
Video Game Review: ‘Superhot’
Watch a bullet fly by, and step out of the way. “Superhot,” released Feb. 25, is a first-person shooter game in which time moves when the player does. Actually, time moves incredibly slowly even while standing still, like bullet time in “The Matrix.” Move a little and time jumps forward, bullets fly by and shattered […]
Artist depicts Oscar winners as Mexican to highlight lack of diversity
UCLA professor Chon Noriega smoothed the front page of the Los Angeles Times out on the table in front of him. Twenty white faces and one headline glared back: “Oscars 2016: Here’s why the nominees are so white – again.” In response Noriega, the director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, contacted Los Angeles artist […]