Warning: spoilers ahead. Mother Earth wants child support – literally. In the latest episode of “Rick and Morty,” Rick sidetracks a family camping trip to visit his baby mama Gaia, a planet he has impregnated with innumerable, half-rock hominids. Read more...
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Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani are two of the brightest stars in modern comedy – pairing them together is an obvious winning combo. The two play the beleaguered couple Leilani and Jibran in “The Lovebirds,” the first film to be released on Netflix after its theatrical premiere was canceled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more...
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The 1975 has never been known for playing by the rules. Continuing to follow the trend of pushing the limits, its fourth studio record “Notes On A Conditional Form” walks the line between sonic originality and the classic UK garage rock the group has been known for since its 2013 debut. Read more...
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Elisa Bass is taking a popular quarantine activity to the next level with her artistic skills – all for a good cause. The second-year economics student recently started a chalk drawing business to raise funds for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. Read more...
Photo: Second-year economics student Elisa Bass is taking chalk drawing to the next level, and it’s all for a good cause. Bass said she recently started a business selling her commissions to raise funds for the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin senior staff)
“Lumpia” is more than a spring roll in the Asian American community. The homemade, low-budget 2003 film tells a story about inner group prejudice, in which a gang of Filipino Americans picks on Filipino high school immigrants. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is currently streaming the low-budget 2003 film “Lumpia,” which presents a humorous and unfiltered view of inner group prejudice within the Filipino American and immigrant community. (Illustration by Vaibhavi Patankar/Daily Bruin)
For Osman Khan, flying carpets are no longer a figment of the imagination. The alumnus and current director of the University of Michigan’s Master of Fine Arts program received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of study of fine arts this year. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Osman Khan plans to use his Guggenheim Fellowship for the fine arts toward a project that retells “One Thousand and One Nights” through technology. The creation will also fuse these tales of the past with immigrant stories of the present. (Photo Illustration by Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor and Shari Wei/Daily Bruin)
Late-night hosts are in quarantine just like their audiences – but “pre-recorded from home, it’s ‘Saturday Night’” just doesn’t have that same ring to it. With social distancing measures forbidding large gatherings, studio audiences quickly diminished down to only the shows’ staff members or no audience at all. Read more...
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