From powerful performances to freshly authentic writing, this year’s Emmy nominees have certainly earned their place on the ballot. While the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the production and filming process of numerous projects, it has simultaneously offered more time to watch television. Read more...
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With an organic approach to design, Misty Buckley made the Grammys stage as golden as the gramophone. The production designer and alumnus is nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding production design for a variety special for her work on the 63rd Grammy Awards. Read more...
Photo: As the first to design a Grammys set with no live audience, production designer and alumnus Misty Buckley experimented with new stage layouts and colorful, organic designs in the 63rd Grammy Awards. (Photo courtesy of Misty Buckley. Photo illustration by Katelyn Dang/Illustrations director)
This post was updated Sept. 6 at 8:41 p.m. “Certified Lover Boy” is a certified dumpster fire. Drake, the tenured Toronto rapper and global superstar, followed up his lengthy 2018 double album “Scorpion” with a 21-track, 86-minute effort that possesses similar traits as its predecessor – a bloated, uninspiring body of work that lacks the creative spark or focus of his early career records. Read more...
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Marvel’s latest legend has arrived, and his name is Shang-Chi. Released Friday in select theaters, including Westwood’s Regency theater, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” centers around lazy hotel valet, Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), as he is forced to return home to fight the demons of his past, including his father and leader of the powerful Ten Rings organization, Xu Wenwu (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung). Read more...
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BabyJake isn’t growing up just yet. With his debut album “The Sun Wakes Up Earlier Now” scheduled to drop Friday, the rising artist said the record is a hodgepodge of everything from country twang to house grooves. Read more...
Photo: Rising artist Jake Herring, better known as BabyJake, talked to the Daily Bruin about his debut album “The Sun Wakes Up Earlier Now.” (Courtesy of Paris Mumpower)
This post was updated Sept. 6 at 8:31 p.m. Closely related keys create chaos and harmony, but ultimately are all quite similar. Alumnus Wendy Graf’s play “Closely Related Keys” debuted Aug. Read more...
Photo: Written by alumnus Wendy Graf, “Closely Related Keys” follows the story of a work-driven Black lawyer, her long lost Iraqi half sister and her white male coworker, reflecting various racial relations and themes of unconditional love. (Courtesy of Andrew Hofstetter)
Never one to shy away from his Christian faith, Kanye West dropped his latest album on a Sunday. The 27-track, nearly two-hour album dedicated to his late mother comes after a hectic year-plus rollout, and “Donda” is quite clearly the furthest from a concise effort for the virtuoso producer and wordsmith. Read more...
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