Saturday, April 11

Coincidence fills fictitious town

Crumbtown is populated by ex-cops who now play cops on television, half-twins who have the same father and birthday but different mothers and a former child TV star who’s now coke-addled and method acting. Read more...




Editor's Note

Dear Loyal Readers, This is it, ladies and gents: the first issue of dB Magazine. The theme, if we want to be so transparent as to pretend a single theme could embody this complex free-flowing entity, is spring. Read more...


Smashdance

War has always had a huge impact on the arts community, influencing productions from “Hair” during the Vietnam era to current endeavors such as the “Lysistrata Project,” which was performed all over the world in a plea for peace. Read more...


UCLA Live feels budget squeeze

UCLA Performing Arts Director David Sefton takes a while on the phone before he can talk. He wishes he were at the South by Southwest Festival in Texas at the moment, but he’s stuck in his office looking at his budget for the 2003-2004 season. Read more...


Knockin’ on Hollywood’s door

When Justin Lin searched for talent for his anticipated debut feature, “Better Luck Tomorrow,” it was not the acting that dismayed him. “When we were casting, I popped in Jason Tobin’s (the character Virgil) audition reel, and it was six scenes in a row of him in these big movies and sitcoms, but it was all just him delivering Chinese food,” Lin said. Read more...