Thursday, May 7

Balkan quartet Gluck Groupa Pendari adds a comptemporary twist on traditional music

A man emulates a woman's voice while an accordion player rhythmically taps his shoembourine, a tambourine attached to a shoe, on the floor. While the scene may seem like it was taken straight out of "Bonanza," it is exactly the kind of entertainment that UCLA's Gluck Groupa Pendari's performance will include. Also known as the UCLA Gluck Balkan Ensemble, this quartet will be performing Thursday night as part of the Fowler Museum's "Fowler Out Loud" concert series. Read more...

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Courtesy of ERIC WANG and KEN KOONS

UCLA Gluck Groupa Pendari will perform Thursday as part of the Fowler Museum’s “Fowler Out Loud” concert series.


“˜Dirty Looks’ connects filmmakers across coasts

Tonight, the Hammer Museum will be screening a film series titled "Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs." The group of films are part of a New York-based roaming screening series that couples East and West Coast queer experimental filmmakers of the past and present. Read more...

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Courtesy of JONESY

“Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs” will feature the work of artist and filmmaker Jonesy. One of his pieces is the five-minute long “Beauty Must Suffer,” which was created in 2010 in color and with sound.


Remote Life: Going to the movies a better date choice than watching TV

What better day for me to write about television than Valentine's Day. I love TV, and Valentine's Day is all about love, right? But the more I thought about the mechanics of Valentine's Day and dating in general, the two seemed less and less compatible. Read more...

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SPYGLASS ENTERTAINMENT

Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams star in the romance film, “The Vow.” Films, more than television shows, seem to be be a better date activity.


Soundbite: Mike Acerbo

Mike Acerbo wants to live in a fairy tale. As he sings of golden castles, blueberry moons and colorful lights in a lofty croon, the New York City singer and songwriter creates a mystical atmosphere that one would expect to be playing while a storybook heroine stumbles through fog toward her Prince Charming. Read more...

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REVERBNATION



UCLA dance clubs in step with Argentinian milonga

In the 1920s, actor Rudolph Valentino sparked an international tango craze when he performed an Argentinian style tango in the silent film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Read more...

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Daily Bruin File Photo

UCLA’s Social Dance Club, with the Ballroom Dance Club and International Folk Dance Club, will bring the Argentinian tango experience to UCLA by hosting a milonga, or Argentinian-style tango party.


“˜Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing’ series recalls overlooked actor’s talent

To most modern movie stars, putting out 75 films in only 37 years would be quite a remarkable task. For Spencer Tracy, whose acting career lasted from 1930 to 1967, it wasn't. Read more...

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UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE
Spencer Tracy (right) in “The Power and the Glory” (1933). The film has been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, which is presenting a film series on Tracy titled “Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing.”