Combining art and technology, the ‘Rain Room’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or LACMA, is an interactive piece that mimics a natural rain that stops whenever human presence is detected. Read more...
Photo: (Justine Sto. Tomas and Noor Gill/Daily Bruin Senior Staff)
Flip on a news channel and you’re likely to see characters with perfectly coiffed hair making fantastical claims directly to camera. But how far does this connection between political figures and entertainment go? Read more...
Photo: Since the 1976 film “All the President’s Men,” the media landscape has changed in the intervening years between Watergate and the 2016 presidential election due to the ubiquity of information easily accessed through the Internet. (Courtesy of Warner Bros.)
There’s no better place to keep a finger on the pulse of arts and entertainment happenings than Los Angeles. The A&E world is alive – it’s always buzzing, sometimes ready to implode with a hint of a surprise album or a celebrity’s controversial statement. Read more...
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Feisty little urchin Annie Rooney has to fight on the grimy streets of 1920s New York to avenge her father’s murder in the movie “Little Annie Rooney.” Ninety years after the release of the silent comedy-drama starring Mary Pickford, preservationists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have teamed up with the Mary Pickford Foundation to develop a new, high-definition print of the movie, which will be screened at the James Bridges Theater on Tuesday. Read more...
Photo: On Tuesday, a newly restored print of the 1925 silent comedy-drama “Little Annie Rooney” will be screened at the James Bridges Theater. A Q&A will follow with two of the film’s preservationists and Andy Gladbach, who composed a new original soundtrack. (United Artists)
“When lots of people start interacting with the noodle, the projected piece starts to go completely crazy until it explodes,” says Design | Media Arts graduate student Theo Triantafyllidis about his art installation for the MFA Exhibition. Read more...
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Warning: This article contains plot spoilers. The living dead. Roamers. Biters. Walkers. Zombies. A corpse by any other name would eat as much flesh. In Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead,” that flesh might have belonged to one of the show’s oldest and most popular characters. Read more...
Photo: The passing of a principal character in “The Walking Dead” is likely to cause ripples in the plot and the group’s fate, as Rick Grime’s leadership is called further in to question. (Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC)
Six naked male strippers stood with their backs to the audience, each clutching a small hat over his genitals. As they turned around, one of them dropped his hat and gave the spectators more of a flash than they had expected, before dazzling stage lights blinded the room. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus Will Collyer will star as Smith in the world premiere of “Breaking Through” at the Pasadena Playhouse. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)
