To say it simply, Arcade Fire is still sad, but no longer depressed. They’re ready to swim through their misery, not sink in it. Read more...
Music
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August 1, 9:23 pm
Album Review
Arts, Film & TV
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July 25, 10:40 pm
Entering the next dimension?
As audiences stared in awe as Jake Sully and the Na’vi flew over the lush jungles of the planet Pandora, visually it was the rebirth of an old cinema staple with cutting-edge advancement in technology. Read more...
Arts, Music
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July 25, 10:39 pm
MusicianCorps shares talent
Imagine the Peace Corps with a touch of soul and lots of instruments and you get something like MusicianCorps, part of the nonprofit Music National Service that trains and sends musicians into communities to spread the love of music. Read more...
Arts
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July 25, 10:37 pm
The Daily Bruin’s Summer 2010 Guide to Los Angeles Art Exhibits
“Document: Iranian-Americans in L.A.” Read more...
Music
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July 25, 10:36 pm
Soundbite
When Ronnie James Dio, the legendary singer of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, passed away on May 16, no one called it the death of metal, because as far as the mainstream musical world is concerned, metal died a long time ago. Read more...
Film & TV
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July 19, 3:33 pm
The Movie Research Experience gets audiences involved in filmmaking
Imagine being able to determine the outcome of a film after simply viewing the trailer. Would Ferris Bueller have gotten a day off? Would Leonardo DiCaprio have survived “Titanic?” It’s audience input such as this that the UCLA Movie Research Experience is exploring in order to improve filmmaking. Read more...
Music
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July 18, 10:25 pm
Machine Project sounds out the boundaries of the museum experience at the Hammer with bells, guitars and houseplants
In the upstairs gallery of the Hammer Museum’s current “Outside the Box” exhibit, a line from composer and performer Meredith Monk’s lithograph collection reads, “I have always thought that sound and space were inseparable.” Yet despite this connection, museums have a long history of being stiflingly silent spaces. Read more...