Taylor Weik

The Unrestricted Flow

It’s a DJ move that is so basic, so subtle, that they call it the baby. There’s more. There’s the Tear, the more complex...

UCI Researchers Work Towards Active Camouflage

Researchers at UCI have gotten one small step closer to a Marvel-like world of shapeshifters, as Dr. Alon A. Gorodetsky and his team of...

Jenna Marbles Rolls Through to ASUCI Speaker Event

Over 460 students filled the Pacific Ballroom in Student Center last Thursday night to attend a Q&A discussion with YouTube comedian Jenna Mourey, more...

Lift Off with Flight Facilities

“Welcome aboard, ladies and gentlemen,” a lightly Australian-accented male voice says cheerily over the intercom. “Today’s flight will be a little over one hour....

A Very Potter Evening

Maranda Li picks up her bow and holds it poised above the tightened strings of her cello, glancing left and right at the other...

Murakami’s Twisted ‘Library’ of Secrets

The title reads “The Strange Library,” but you can automatically omit the word “strange” because chances are if it’s written by Haruki Murakami —...

Screening Celebrates Filipino Labor Struggles

UC Irvine welcomed Filipina American director and producer Marissa Aroy and Cerritos City Mayor Mark E. Pulido for a screening of her latest documentary,...

Welcome To The Yuna-Versity of California, Irvine

The lights have dimmed, casting vague, eerie shadows everywhere. The band is already on stage playing a familiar, indie-pop tune. The crowd of UCI...

Left an American, Returned a Parisian

“Pardon,” I addressed the gaggle of American tourists in front of me, who were blocking the Paris metro doors. The train had just halted...

Dumbfoundead Comes to Class

Asian American studies students, faculty, as well as hip-hop and rap fans gathered in Humanities Gateway last Tuesday, May 20, as LA-based rapper Jonathan...

It’s Godzilla!

The opening credits seem a little familiar. With black and white WWII-era footage of traveling navy ships, military men strategizing at a roundtable and...

And the Drum Beats On

You can hear them even before you cross the bridge. Heart-rattling, solid booms echo throughout Mesa Parking Structure and blast out into the surrounding...

‘The Wind Rises’ Soars

During a hot summer night in upcountry Japan, a boy wakes and wordlessly wanders into the night. He climbs onto the roof of his...

Vo on Visibility

She is the former chair of the department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine, has published a book on Asian community organization and...