Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Warner Bros. True to its theme of water as a destructive force, Wolfgang Petersen’s “Poseidon” exists in something of a whirlpool of irony. Read more...
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May 11, 9:00 pm
Screen Scene: "Poseidon"
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May 11, 9:00 pm
Screen Scene: "Just My Luck"
Directed by Donald Petrie 20th Century Fox “Just My Luck” features footage of Lindsay Lohan partying, making out with hotties, wearing designer dresses, and looking trashed the next morning. Read more...
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May 10, 9:00 pm
Family ties
To provide insight into the nature of human creativity, the world arts and cultures department has recruited an exclusive music group from western Rajasthan, India, that will demonstrate its unique culture through vibrant song and dance. Read more...
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May 10, 9:00 pm
My super sweet bar mitzvah bash
Right now, at this very moment, part of me wishes I were 13 again. I fully acknowledge the masochistic implications of such a statement and recognize that it romanticizes the youthfulness every person not named Michael Jackson eventually loses to adulthood, but I just can’t shake the feeling. Read more...
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May 9, 9:00 pm
Review: Gustave Klimt at LACMA
With the controversy that has surrounded the art collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer for the last 70 or so years, it’s a miracle their works are even on display in the United States at all. Read more...
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May 9, 9:00 pm
Making a millennium of music
Richard Thompson found it strange that Playboy magazine would ask him to compile a list of the 10 best songs of the last 1,000 years. But he decided to fulfill the request anyway. Read more...
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May 9, 9:00 pm
Young’s latest album captures spirit of rock
They say rock ‘n’ roll will never die. But what if rock isn’t an idea, but a man? Allow me to explain. Looking back at the rock music canon, a number of artists grasped the parts but not the whole: The Beatles helped develop the pop song, as well as a healthy desire to test the genre’s limits, Bob Dylan reinvented folk, and Led Zeppelin showed what guitars are capable of. Read more...