The lights were still on late Friday night inside the small theater near Westwood’s In-N-Out. A group of improv artists gathered together on stage in front of the black curtain for their 30-minute improvised comedy set.

BY COCO WANG
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Mark Jones grew up learning about the value of food from his father, who worked in urban and homeless communities as a master gardener in Los Angeles.

The moment the thunderbolt strikes her car, Adaline Bowman stops aging. Snowflakes swirl in the air, setting the stage for a magical and romantic tale, where nothing is the same again.

Tears fall down Yingtai Zhu’s cheeks as she leans toward the grave of her beloved Liang. Played by second-year business economics student Xiaoyi Chen, Zhu is a young Chinese girl fighting for her love in an ancient feudal society.

In the corner of a UCLA graduate studio, mushrooms grow on a pair of jeans, a toy lizard and a knit pullover.
For his exhibition, Design | Media Arts graduate student Peter Lu said he decided on a more traditional and tangible approach instead of using media technology: planting mushrooms on everyday things.