Deerhunter is doomed to pop music. It tried to escape. Every album, its effects acted as a defense mechanism: gauze for “Cryptograms,” glimmer for “Microcastle,” falsetto for “Halycon Digest.” But there’s no escaping the great escapism. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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May 3, 1:09 am
Movie Review: ‘Kiss of the Damned’
Someone tell Edward Cullen horror wants its vampires back. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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May 3, 1:06 am
Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3’
Director Shane Black is already one of high expectations, the UCLA alumnus also having written the first “Lethal Weapon” film. Read more...
Arts, Lifestyle
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May 3, 12:59 am
Club’s 28th annual festivity brings a taste of Hawaii to UCLA
Kalua pig for the taste buds, ukulele for the ears, and Tahitian, auana and kahiko dances for the eyes. Read more...
Photo: Fifth-year geophysics student Alyssa Anderson practices for the 28th annual luau, presented by Hui O ‘Imiloa Hawai’i Club at UCLA, to be held tomorrow in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
Arts, Music
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May 2, 12:00 am
Album Review: ‘Ready To Die’ By Iggy and the Stooges
Move over, 20-something-year-olds trying to recapture the intensity and raucous energy of early ’70s rock, the classics aren’t dead yet. Iggy and the Stooges, the arguable progenitors of punk rock, are back with “Ready to Die,” a new offering of stripped-down, in-your-face rock ’n’ roll. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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May 2, 12:00 am
UCLA to screen alumna’s first feature film ‘Arcadia’
As UCLA professor A.P. Gonzales asked his students to write down their earliest memories, Olivia Silver took paper to pen and relived the moment of shock she felt upon arriving at her new home in the San Gabriel Valley after driving cross-country from Connecticut. For Silver, this would be the first step in creating her first feature film, “Arcadia.” Read more...
Photo: Melnitz Movies will screen UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Olivia Silver’s first feature film “Arcadia” Friday.
Arts, Film & TV
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May 2, 12:00 am
Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air’
France, around 1971: bohemian kickback, heroin flowing, bonfires blazing; nude or half-nude, the Marxists-maybe-Maoists dance, music booming, politics looming. Embers flicker in the air, romance, youth and ennui and smoke, tasseled together inseparable, floating ethereal into nevermore. Read more...