Joan Didion’s “Political Fictions” introduces an angle on American politics few have seen. It’s like visiting the vacant set of a television show: what appears real and sincere is revealed to be fake. Read more...
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October 10, 9:00 pm
Political journalist Didion to speak at Hammer
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October 10, 9:00 pm
Technology has greedy industries worried
The digitization of entertainment has finally spread into home video recording and TV; and, once again, the thorn in our technological ass is the entertainment industry. Read more...
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October 10, 9:00 pm
Bowling for bullets
Filmmaker Michael Moore wants to make one thing crystal clear about his latest film, “Bowling for Columbine.” “Ultimately, this film is not about guns, it’s not about school shootings,” Moore said about the documentary, the first to be accepted into the Cannes Film Festival for competition in 46 years. Read more...
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October 9, 9:00 pm
UCLA Archive brings Korean cultural films to American audience
President Bush’s “Axis of Evil” includes a country torn by politics but connected through heritage as an industrialized South Korea mourns its northern communist counterpart, a remnant of the Cold War. Read more...
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October 9, 9:00 pm
Art exhibit examines world with new lenses
If art can truly be said to imitate life, then in a new age filled with impending war and other political tensions, museums have begun to adapt their exhibits to focus on new media such as film and documentary. Read more...
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October 9, 9:00 pm
UCLA art department explores diversity of beliefs in exhibit
Beliefs, like shapes and colors, fill our world in various forms. Tonight, beliefs portrayed through art will fill the New Wight Gallery with various shapes and colors in the UCLA art department’s exhibit titled “to believe much more than that.” Five UCLA art graduate students are curating the Kinross Building’s first exhibit, showcasing the artwork of 16 art students from schools around Southern California, all focusing on belief. Read more...
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October 9, 9:00 pm
Jazz musician shares life through song
Have you ever lived music? When you are so happy or so full of whatever emotion that you just remember your favorite song and start singing? Read more...