Twitching corpses, shaking ghouls and blow-up Star Wars characters appear on Westwood Boulevard every fall. They are housed within the doors of the Halloween Club, the seasonal pop-up shop and extension of the Aahs! Read more...
Photo: In 1986, Jack Bhasin bought out the previously owned Aahs! store in Westwood and ran the business with his wife, his cousin and his uncle. Nine years later, the owners brought a Halloween Club to Westwood. (Ken Shin/Daily Bruin)
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Read more...
Photo: Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, a professor emeritus of ethnomusicology, was introduced to the gondze, a West African fiddle, during a class she took at UCLA for her master’s thesis in 1971. (Bailey Greene/Daily Bruin)
“Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse” sees twofold brain chomping: The zombies feast on human brains, and the movie eats away at the audience’s. Unfortunately for the horror comedy, one and a half hours of cheesy clichés, leering teen banter and countless breast close-ups don’t amount to much hilarity. Read more...
Photo: (Paramount Pictures)
Combining art and technology, the ‘Rain Room’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, is an interactive piece that mimics a natural rain that stops whenever human presence is detected. Read more...
Photo: (Justine Sto. Tomas and Noor Gill/Daily Bruin Senior Staff)
Flip on a news channel and you’re likely to see characters with perfectly coiffed hair making fantastical claims directly to camera. But how far does this connection between political figures and entertainment go? Read more...
Photo: Since the 1976 film “All the President’s Men,” the media landscape has changed in the intervening years between Watergate and the 2016 presidential election due to the ubiquity of information easily accessed through the Internet. (Courtesy of Warner Bros.)
There’s no better place to keep a finger on the pulse of arts and entertainment happenings than Los Angeles. The A&E world is alive – it’s always buzzing, sometimes ready to implode with a hint of a surprise album or a celebrity’s controversial statement. Read more...
Photo: (J.K. Rowling, Walt Disney Records, Sony Pictures, Barbie YouTube)
Feisty little urchin Annie Rooney has to fight on the grimy streets of 1920s New York to avenge her father’s murder in the movie “Little Annie Rooney.” Ninety years after the release of the silent comedy-drama starring Mary Pickford, preservationists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have teamed up with the Mary Pickford Foundation to develop a new, high-definition print of the movie, which will be screened at the James Bridges Theater on Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: On Tuesday, a newly restored print of the 1925 silent comedy-drama “Little Annie Rooney” will be screened at the James Bridges Theater. A Q&A will follow with two of the film’s preservationists and Andy Gladbach, who composed a new original soundtrack. (United Artists)
