UCLA Happenings Blog http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog UCLA Events Calendar Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:02:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Happenings Maintenance 12-8-2012 http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/2012/12/07/happenings-maintenance-12-8-2012/ http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/2012/12/07/happenings-maintenance-12-8-2012/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:02:40 +0000 Happenings Team http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/?p=525 We want Happenings to be your reliable guide to events on the UCLA campus. To make that happen, we need–from time to time–to do maintenance that takes the site offline.

On Saturday, December 8, Happenings will be unavailable beginning at approximately 6 a.m. The site should be back up and fully functioning by 10 a.m. the same day.

For your convenience, Saturday’s events are shown here:

-Happenings Team

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If you’re already on Twitter, follow us there. If you’re not, you can always see what we’re up to at twitter.com/uclahappenings. You don’t even need an account.

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Today we’re excited to announce the roll out of a new feature on Happenings. Over a year ago we added the ability to recommend events and it’s been a very popular feature on the site. People love recommending events that they find interesting.

We’re taking this one step further and displaying every event that has been recommended in Happenings all in one place. It’s a truly crowd sourced list that shows the most popular events happening around UCLA as recommended by our users. We hope you’ll use this to help you find the most interesting events happening around UCLA.

-Happenings Team

 

]]> http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/2011/07/26/new-feature-allows-you-to-list-most-recommended-events/feed/ 6 We’ve made some design changes http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/2011/03/22/weve-made-some-design-changes/ http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/2011/03/22/weve-made-some-design-changes/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:57:33 +0000 Happenings Team http://happenings.ucla.edu/blog/?p=471 At Happenings we’re always looking for ways to improve our site. For us, it’s a continuous process that results from all the feedback we get.

Today, we’re rolling out a few minor changes to the layout of our design.

Alignment

We went and aligned our text to the left to help with the flow of readability and also grouped each event listing closer together to help them stand out more. This should allow your eyes to scan each event much easier.

Screen shot of Happenings

Featured Events

We also made the Featured Events a little more prominent to help bring more attention to what we think are some of the most interesting things happening around UCLA.

Screen shot of Happenings

Let us know what you think! Is there anything else you’d like to see in Happenings? You can contact us or leave a comment below.

Happenings Team

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QR Codes, which were popularized in Japan, work just like barcodes, but they can act as links to web sites. To scan a QR Code, you will need two things: a smart phone with a camera, and a QR Code reader app. There are many free QR Code reader apps available. Please visit the app store for your particular phone to download one.

Here are some free readers you can download for free:
iOS: QuickMark
Android: QuickMark
Palm WebOS: QR deCODEr
Blackberry: ScanLife Barcode Reader

Once you have an app, point your camera at the Happenings poster and scan the code.

Happy scanning!

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The ‘Musical Comedies’ of Miguel Gomes

The Film and Television Archive presents, as part of their Playtime: The ‘Musical Comedies’ of Miguel Gomes series, screenings of The Face You Deserve (A Cara que Mereces), Entretanto, and Cantico das Criaturas. December 18th, 7:30pm @ Billy Wilder Theater.

Man and woman under an umbrella

Los Angeles Ballet: The Nutcracker

The holiday tradition continues with LA Ballet’s acclaimed original production of The Nutcracker, returning to Royce Hall for its fourth season. December 18th – 19th.

Geffen Playhouse Production: Broadway Holiday

The Geffen Playhouse presents its production of "Broadway Holiday." Join some of musical theater’s greatest talents as the cast of Broadway Holiday recreates memorable moments from hit show like Jersey Boys, West Side Story, South Pacific, Chicago, Showboat, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Hair and Evita. Runs December 17, 2010 – January 02, 2011. Visit site for showtimes and ticket.

Broadway Holiday

Basketball Action

Men’s basketball take on Montana State, UC Irvine, Washington State, and Washington while the Women’s team take on LSU.

Museums

The Fowler Museum current exhibitions include Street Art: Photographic Elevations of Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin by Larry Yust; Monochrome Ceramics from Ancient Mexico; and Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives. The Fowler Museum will be open except for December 24-25, and December 29th-Jan1st.

You’ll find exhibitions from Mark Flores, Julian Hoeber, My Barbarian, and Frances Stark at The Hammer along with their permanent collection. The Hammer Museum will also be open except for December 25th and January 1st, 2011. Special hours for December 24th and December 31st are 11am-3pm.

-Cheers! From the Happenings Team

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Thursday, November 25 – Thanksgiving Day

There are no events listed for this day. The campus, including the Fowler Museum and the Hammer Museum, is closed. Enjoy your turkey!

Friday, November 26

Missed out on all those Black Friday shopping specials? Here are some great entertainment choices to cheer you up:
-Check out the Street Art exhibit at the Fowler
-Be sure to stop by the Hammer and experience Julian Hoeber’s “Demon Hill”
-Didn’t get enough football yesterday? Catch the Bruins football game versus Arizona State on cable (game @Arizona State)
-Cheer on the women’s volleyball team as they host cross town rivals USC. UCLA students get in free! (w/valid Bruin Card)

Saturday, November 27

Enjoy some theater at the Geffen Playhouse as they present: Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein. Performances at 3 and 8pm.

Leonard Bernstein on the piano

Sunday, November 28

It’s been a busy weekend. The meals, shopping, football. Cap it off with a Bruin game. Women’s basketball plays Temple  (2pm) and men’s soccer plays Dartmouth in the third round of the NCAA Championships (5pm).

Leonard Bernstein on the piano

Gobble gobble! – Happenings

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We’re still transitioning to our new database, so please pardon our dust.

With big updates come the inevitable: software bugs! You don’t like them, and we sure don’t like them either. We’re working very hard to track down the last few pieces so we can get Happenings rolling at 100% again.

We encourage you to use the calendar widget and search box located on the right hand side on all pages. If you click on “Sports” and notice events like basketball games are not listed, use the search box or scroll through ‘All Events 30 Days’ to find them.

If you find a bug, please let us know.

-UCLA Happenings Team

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We’re going to be performing a website update from 8-9am on Wednesday, November 3rd. Happenings.ucla.edu and the mobile site will not be accessible.

Update Notice

Part of the system update we’re performing affect event IDs. All events will be assigned new event IDs. The side effects of this update are:

-Broken or wrongly linked happenings.ucla.edu event URLs (Shared or bookmarked)
-Broken or wrongly linked http://ucla.in shortened URLs for happenings.ucla.edu events
-Missing or wrongly associated “Likes” by Facebook users
-Missing or wrongly associated Facebook comments for events

If you have bookmarked or linked to a URL before 8am Wednesday, you will need to revisit happenings.ucla.edu, find your event, and use the new URL it has been assigned. Facebook “Likes” and comments will also be associated with an older event or might be missing entirely. We apologize for the inconvenience to our visitors and event organizers. We expect these problems to persist for events entered prior to our system update and correct itself in the next few days. We encourage you to re-share, re-like and re-post comments you’ve made.

This latest system update will allow us to roll out new features on the website. We look forward to revealing those features to all of you very soon.

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Screenshot of additional calendar search options

Give it a test drive and let us know what you think.

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