This week, Daily Bruin A&E is counting down to the New Year by looking back at the best and worst events in the arts and entertainment world of 2015. Today, A&E contributor Sean Lee recounts the Drake and Meek Mill beef that established 2015 as the year hip hop feuds entered the social media age. […]
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Vice chancellor criticizes student’s anti-Semitic Facebook comments
A UCLA official criticized anti-Semitic comments made by a UCLA student on Facebook in an email statement sent to the student body Wednesday. Janina Montero, vice chancellor for student affairs, sent the email after a pro-Israel group on campus condemned an undergraduate student for a series of comments posted on the Facebook status of Jewish […]
Submission: MSA engages in identity politics with San Bernardino solidarity rally
On Thursday the Muslim Student Association, or MSA, at UCLA held a “Solidarity Rally” in response to a horrific mass shooting on Wednesday that left 14 dead and at least 21 wounded in San Bernardino, California. However, the purpose of this rally was not to commemorate the victims. Instead, the rally – which took place […]
Album Review: ‘Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven’
Kid Cudi’s new album cover for “Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven” bears a striking resemblance to Robert Capa’s 1936 photo “The Falling Soldier.” In the photograph, Capa captures the moment a soldier is shot by a “speeding bullet” and falls to his death. In 1975, the authenticity of the photograph was questioned by journalist Philip Knightley, […]
Lights, Camera, Political Action: ‘Frost/Nixon’
Flip on a news channel and you’re likely to see characters with perfectly coiffed hair making fantastical claims directly at the camera. But how far does this connection between political figures and entertainment go? Each week, A&E columnist Kevin Truong will look at a movie through the lens of modern politics, analyzing whether the political […]
Tanner’s Take: Kentucky upset is a glimpse at what could be for UCLA
There will be a time to return to reality. But tonight is not that time. A stunning 87-77 upset over not-gonna-be-top-ranked-much-longer Kentucky Thursday gave UCLA its first win over a No. 1 team in over a decade and provided Bruin basketball fans with a night where everything went right. Just ask the guy who banked […]
Reels, Notes and Takes: Week 10
There’s no better place to keep a finger on the pulse of arts and entertainment happenings than Los Angeles. The A&E world is alive – it’s always buzzing, sometimes ready to implode with a hint of a surprise album or a celebrity’s controversial statement. Each week, the Daily Bruin A&E editors will discuss their views […]