Monday, April 27, 1998 Semisonic’s sonorous, but short, show charms fans MUSIC: Rising Minnesota band blends honesty, personality to pop performance at Troubadour Trinh Bui Daily Bruin Contributor Rolling in from places unknown, the trio Semisonic played a brilliantly laid-back performance at the Troubadour Wednesday. Read more...
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April 26, 9:00 pm
Semisonic’s sonorous, but short, show charms fans
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April 26, 9:00 pm
Soundbites
Monday, April 27, 1998 Soundbites Drill Team, "Hope and Dreams Explosion," (Reprise Records) Ladies and gentleman, we have a winner. Entering the mainstream music circuit, meet Drill Team, the L.A.-based alternative pop band who has a successful first full-length album on their hands. Read more...
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April 23, 9:00 pm
New events spice of life at book fair
Friday, April 24, 1998 New events spice of life at book fair BOOKS: Additions add flair to past favorites, seek to unite community By Michelle Zubiate Daily Bruin Contributor They put us to bed as little children and stimulate our minds as adults. Read more...
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April 23, 9:00 pm
WEHO Lounge injects joe, tests for HIV
Friday, April 24, 1998 WEHO Lounge injects joe, tests for HIV RESTAURANT: Coffeehouse serves desserts, dose of AIDS awareness with mystic touch By Frances Lee Daily Bruin Senior Staff Leave the Starbucks and the Coffee Beans to the Brentwood yuppies and the I’m-stuck-in-Westwood crowd and head on over to a low-key, unpretentious West Hollywood hangout that serves up a mean cup of joe and offers free AIDS testing, besides. Read more...
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April 23, 9:00 pm
People’s choice
Friday, April 24, 1998 People’s choice MUSIC: The Alexander String Quartet lets the audience decide each program’s repetoire By Ai Goldsmith Daily Bruin Contributor "Choose Your Own Adventures" aren’t just for books anymore. Read more...
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April 23, 9:00 pm
Screenscene
Friday, April 24, 1998 Screenscene "The Big Hit" Directed by Che-Kirk Wong Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lou Diamond Phillips and China Chow If "Starship Troopers" and "Wild Things" introduced the witty, tongue-in-cheek thriller as a genre, "The Big Hit" seals its place in Hollywood. Read more...
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April 22, 9:00 pm
Columnist doesn’t play in politicians’ tricky games
Thursday, April 23, 1998 Columnist doesn’t play in politicians’ tricky games BOOK: Molly Ivins keeps remarks fair on ‘Rodney Dangerfield of presidents’ By J. Jioni Palmer Daily Bruin Senior Staff Reading "You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years," by Molly Ivins feels like riding shotgun in a rickety pickup truck barreling down a curvaceous back-country road. Read more...