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Oceanside Special Olympics champ joins Oceanside police as honorary officer
Gold Medal winning Special Olympian Heidi Sand was sworn in as an honorary police officer on Tuesday. The honor surprised Sand, a longtime Oceanside resident, who two months ago brought home a Gold Medal in tennis from the Special Olympics World Games in Berlin.
Meta Platforms' Instagram reportedly has Twitter competitor app in the works
Bloomberg reported Friday that the app being developed by Instagram, a social media platform owned by parent company Meta Platforms, will be text-based and compete with Twitter. The earliest its rollout could happen is around the end of June, the outlet reported, citing UCLA Extension Social Media and Influencer Marketing Instructor Lia Haberman.
For this retiree, life and art are all about having fun
"Fox started her work life as a culinary chef, having gone to a UCLA Extension culinary arts school. She soon realized that cooking and painting food go well together."
Iran’s storytelling tradition spans centuries. A woman in Tehrangeles has revolutionized it
"She misses her home country, but she has made a life for herself in Los Angeles. When she is not performing Naqqali, she works as an occasional instructor for UCLA Extension, where she teaches Persian language, Naqqali and the Shahnameh."
This multidisciplinary artist repurposes interior design waste into eclectic home decor
But her calling still hadn’t sunk in just yet. After graduating, Adams took a day job at Apple that left her feeling creatively unfulfilled, so she decided to pursue a masters degree in interior architecture offered collaboratively between UCLA Extension and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The education led to a full-time gig with designer Michael Smith.
The Mic at Micky’s Returns with a One-Year Anniversary Show
West Hollywood City Poet Laureate Brian Sonia-Wallace is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow for LGBTQ+ poetry activism, and the author of The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter (Harper Collins, 2020). His work has appeared in Poets.org, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian, and he teaches at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
‘Ant-Man’ Star Kathryn Newton Reveals Brie Larson’s Advice About Playing a ‘Giant’ Superhero
I actually do love science. I recently took a physics class just for fun, at UCLA Extension, just because I was out of work. But I’m not a brilliant scientist by any means. I’m not creating a quantum portal into another realm or anything… but I think I could. So just give me time. Maybe take a different class. I don’t know which one. Maybe there’s like a quantum physics class.
WINFARM strengthens its teams in view of accelerating its development
With a Ph.D. in Science from the Université Européenne de Bretagne and a marketing and digital communications strategy certificate from UCLA Extension, Fanny Adam has joined WINFARM as Head of Institutional Communications and Public Relations.
“GINA ZOLLMAN: Anywhere With You” Album Release
Her marketing background helped her sell out her first one-woman show at The Gardenia in Hollywood, after taking the class “How To Put On Your Own Cabaret Act” at UCLA Extension, taught by the renowned pianist and songwriter, Shelly Markham, who became her Accompanist and Music Director for many of her cabaret shows.
Artist and Art Consultant Laurie Raskin Shares How to Buy Meaningful Art to Enjoy Through the Years
Brenda Williams teaches an excellent class at UCLA Extension called Contemporary Los Angeles Art. With both of those classes, you’ll go to galleries, private collections and museums.
How to Care for Snake Plants
“Snake plants are sturdy and sculptural in form, and their upright nature makes them the perfect apartment plant or plant to tuck into narrow spaces,” says Leslie F. Halleck, a certified professional horticulturist, author of Gardening Under Lights and UCLA Extension Horticulture Instructor.
‘WeHo Reads’ kickoff event
Additional support for WeHo Reads is provided by UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and Poets & Writers
Q&A: Iris Yamashita, Author of ‘City Under One Roof’
'my true passion has always been writing. Literature/Writing was my minor as an Undergrad and I continued to write as a hobby. I took night classes after work at UCLA extension'
On the Rise: Talent in Action
After picking up a UCLA extension catalog, she decided to take the Assistant Editor class at UCLA with the goal of moving into post-production.