Campus Events Commission Blog

The batch of films and actors that gets nominated at the Academy Awards every year is rarely a surprise, save for a few head-scratchers here and there. This year, however, some surprising picks made the cut into the top categories (inciting more than a few WTF reactions), while many arguably more deserving films were left [...]

1. Okay, just look at the man. Even if you are male and a complete zero on the Kinsey Scale, you have to admit that Ryan Gosling is pretty damn delectable. In the words of Emma Stone in Crazy, Stupid, Love, “Seriously?? It’s like you’re photoshopped!” 2. Moving aside from the purely physical (because here [...]

Some of you seniors might remember a particular Wednesday in 2008, when Campus Events Commission screened the movie “Pirates II: Stagnatti’s Revenge”. Now most of you are thinking, so what? Johnny Depp is cool and all, but what’s so special about screening a Disney movie? Well, it wasn’t exactly a Disney movie. It was a [...]

On Wednesday 2/15, Campus Events Commission will host Kogi BBQ (@kogibbq), Frysmith (@frysmith), and Coolhaus (@coolhaus) along with LA Weekly’s Jonathan Gold (@thejgold) and the Gastronomy blog’s Cathy Chaplin (@gastronomyblog) on a panel about the role of food trucks in America’s culinary landscape. UCLA is no stranger to food trucks: while South Campus’s beloved Bombshelter is closed [...]

When I heard that CEC would be holding a Bruin Plaza concert with Gardens & Villa I immediately thought of the many gardens (and a villa) that UCLA students tend to put on their “to see” bucket list. Some are on campus, some are off, but all are pretty well-known and definitely worth a visit. [...]