Sunday, October 11

Soundbite

Radar Bros. “The Fallen Leaf Pages” Merge Records Slowcore is an excuse for rock critics to praise molasses-paced music. With the exception of the genre-defining band Low, “slow” tends to be a euphemism for the word “boring,” making the useless “core” addendum irrelevant. Read more...



A long shelf life

At first glance, the story behind the opera “Lorca, Child of the Moon” seems to have a fairy-tale ending. A labor of love first developed as a series of workshops, it gained support and grew into a full-scale opera that will premiere on March 17 at Freud Playhouse. Read more...


Googlewhat?

If you typed the words “necrophiliacs” and “scrunchies” into a Google search, they’d produce a Googlewhack. For the majority of the world, the term Googlewhack, which refers to a Google search that yields one and only one result, means absolutely nothing. Read more...


Mean Girl

Comedian Kathy Griffin has never been shy about speaking her mind. In fact, it’s been her irreverent sense of humor and love of celebrity gossip that’s kept her in the public eye, even if only in the peripheral. Read more...


Film emphasizes pursuit of dreams

Many UCLA students are not strangers to parental pressures to excel in everything from athletics to academics. But sometimes being on the pre-med track for Harvard Medical School just won’t cut it when your true desire is to be a filmmaker or a world-class athlete. Read more...


Soundbite

50 Cent “The Massacre” Interscope 50 Cent is arguably the biggest rapper in the world. His records sell by the millions to adoring fans from Tokyo to Norman, Oklahoma. Read more...