By C.J. Yu DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected]   Photo courtesy of Outfest For those who are already tired of this season’s lackluster big-budget movies, the Outfest film festival may prove to be the summertime alternative that movie-goers have been seeking. Read more...

By Michelle V. Gonzales Daily Bruin Contributor [email protected]   JONATHAN YOUNG/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Laty Cahoon, a fourth-year microimmunology and molecular genetics student, peruses some CDs at Penny Lane. Read more...

By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Senior Staff [email protected] During the Soviet occupation of Hungary, illegitimate children were given fictitious fathers by the bureaucracy. This is just one of the absurdities of Cold War Hungary that UCLA Film and Television professor Gyula Gazdag portrays in his film, “A Hungarian Fairy Tale.” The film will be screened at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center Wednesday night with Gazdag attending to answer questions afterward. Read more...

By Scott Schultz Daily Bruin Senior Staff [email protected] It’s difficult to go wrong with Neil Simon’s tried-and-true comedy “The Odd Couple.” Playing at the Geffen Playhouse, “Oscar and Felix, A New Look at The Odd Couple” is an enjoyable update that doesn’t stray too far from the original. Read more...

By C.J. Yu DAILY BRUIN CONTRIBUTOR [email protected] Although David Quantic and Abigail Severance may produce films in different genres that touch on different issues, they still have one goal in common: to change the portrayal of gays and lesbians in American media. Read more...

  Sonic Youth “Murray Street” Geffen Records, Inc. The term “classic rock” often bears negative associations, especially for fans of a band like Sonic Youth, which pioneered an alternative movement that split from the rock canon. Read more...

By Howard Ho DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF [email protected]   Wellspring Cho’s newest concert film, “Notorious C.H.O.,” is currently playing at the Landmark Nuart Theater. In Margaret Cho’s new film, “Notorious C.H.O.,” she describes a cross-dressing, homosexual couple that mentored her through high school as “crouching drag queen, hidden faggot.” Though hilarious, Cho’s statement mixing Asian and gay culture is just one example of how her multiple identities play out on the stage. Read more...