Sunday, May 10

Dyeing to change

Bald people can't do it, but even kimono-wearing old ladies in Japan have jumped on the hair color bandwagon. Read more...

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Alison Kish, the salon manager at the Aveda Institute in Westwood, gets her hair dyed a pink hue. Despite its potential damaging effects, hair-coloring is a creative outlet for many people.


Student’s funny claim to fame

Esteban Torres Urso is obsessed with motorcycles. Read more...

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Third-year Italian and philosophy student Esteban Torres Urso helped to create the video “Miss USA’s Sexy Halloween” for the website Funny or Die.


Film screenings feature a forgotten social class

Director Matt Porterfield filmed his first feature, "Hamilton," in the same neighborhood, on the same block and in the same house in Baltimore where he grew up. Read more...

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“Putty Hill” and “Hamilton” will be shown at Melnitz Hall on Tuesday. The director of both films, Matt Porterfield, will participate in a Q&A session in between films.

Credits: THE HAMILTON FILM GROUP



Taking hope on tour

Hope, love and justice. Read more...

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Activist folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg will perform tonight at Royce Hall with legendary gospel singer Mavis Staples as part of their Hope, Love & Justice Tour.


The ‘Hollywoods’: Cali parks in film

Where do aliens, dinosaurs, apes, U.S. soldiers and Roman senators rub shoulders outside of a Westwood Halloween party? Read more...

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This scene from “MASH” was filmed on a movie lot in Malibu Creek State Park and will be featured in the California State Parks film festival.

COURTESY of Zan Dubin Scott


Movie Review: “Jolene”

Movie 'Jolene' follows one woman through destructive relationships even as she keeps hope for a better life

November 12, 2010 – “Jolene,” starring newcomer Jessica Chastain as a red-headed young woman who travels across the country experiencing a string of unhealthy relationships, opened at Laemmle’s Sunset 5 in Los Angeles on November 5.

Radio Director Sarah Rogozen had an unhealthy relationship of her own with this movie. [2:48]

"Movie 'Jolene' follows one woman through destructive relationships even as she keeps hope for a better life"

As a relatively unknown actress, Jessica Chastain holds her own alongside her famous co-stars in Dan Ireland's film "Jolene," based on E.L. Read more...