As a kid, Felischa Marye felt her first feeling of true sorrow when she visited a production set. “The Cosby Show” actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner was filming a movie down the street from her house, but when she went to get a glimpse of the action, she couldn’t do anything about the barriers that kept her […]
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Acting, scriptwriting on the horizon for UCLA student
First, she was Bellatrix Lestrange. Then she rap battled USC, went to “The Great Fratsby” and most recently serenaded UCLA students with her rendition of “I’m a Bro.” Now, as her fourth year draws to a close, Spring Sing Company member and fourth-year theater student Kimia Behpoornia is creating her own variety comedy show for […]
Graduate student Rocco Pucillo sells ‘Imaginary Foe’ to Warner Bros.
Rocco Pucillo can recall the creative writing lessons he was so fond of during his time in grade school. It was there the seed was planted for the career he would come to pursue so passionately. “When I was in grammar school, the principal (taught) a creative writing class where she did all these exercises,” […]
Fashion Beyond UCLA: Guide to postgrad style
Yoga pants and slacks. Blazers and crop tops. Rainbow sandals and oxfords. It’s hard to imagine a world where all of the above can peacefully coexist. Approaching graduation day, fashion becomes just another element of the scary transition into the “real world.” This quarter, columnist Noor Gill’s “Student Sartorialist” has covered trends and fashion niches […]
Spotlight on LA: Summer Previews
Dear reader, Here at the Daily Bruin, we’re beyond a bruin, just like you. In Arts & Entertainment, we want to write stories for you, about you and because of you. As hard as we try, we haven’t held up that promise to you, our reader, in terms of our neglected online blog, Spotlight. But […]
Q&A: Musician Naomi Robin shares postgrad plans
Whether recording for record labels, interning for a music company that has managed such artists as the Shins or captivating a crowd from onstage with her band, Naomi and the Bandits, graduating fourth-year music history student Naomi Robin is showing no signs of slowing down, even as the doors of UCLA close behind her. As […]
Bruin sees music as gateway to cultural studies
Music lays the foundation for everything from food, art forms, indigenous languages, spiritual exercise and entertainment in native cultures throughout the Americas, said ethnomusicology graduate student Jessie Vallejo. “Even in a lot of South American lowland and highland indigenous groups, there’s a really strong connection between chicha (corn beer) and music,” Vallejo said. “You have […]