“Focus”Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John RequaWarner Bros.3.0 / 5.0 paws To say that Will Smith’s career has been hit or miss lately is a gross understatement. Read more...
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Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 26, 1:00 am
Shakespeare Company pens contemporary translation of ‘Henry IV Part I’
It was 11 p.m. on a Friday night, but the lights in Ackerman Union 2408 were still on. Fourteen students gathered together and chanted the Bard’s lines. Read more...
Photo: “Henry IV, Part I,” put on by the Shakespeare Company at UCLA and UCLA Residential Life, will star fourth-year English student Neda Dallal (left) and third-year theater student Ian Runge (right). The play will take place Friday and Saturday in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Music
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February 25, 1:37 am
Album review: ‘Archive Series Volume No. 1’
“Archive Series Volume No. 1” Iron & Wine Black Cricket Recording Co. 4 paws Sam Beam, also known as Iron & Wine, is an enigma. The South Carolinian singer was once a cinematography professor at the University of Miami who decided not to pursue a career in music. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Black Cricket Recording Co.)
Arts, Arts Columns, Lifestyle, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 25, 1:35 am
Alternative comics offer medium of expression to unconventional artists
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: “CORPA” by Michel Fiffe is an alternative comic that derives from the 1980s superhero series, “Suicide Squad.” (Courtesy of Michel Fiffe)
Arts, Film & TV
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February 25, 1:34 am
Report assesses gender, minority representation in Hollywood
BY SHREYA AIYAR A&E contributor [email protected] Many big-screen heroes are white and male, but most of the audience that watches their stories are not. In the 87th Academy Awards, the 20 actor and actress nominees were white and all the screenwriting and directing nominees were male. Read more...
Photo: (Annie Chan/Daily Bruin)
Arts, Video
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February 24, 1:20 am
Aaron Newman: Passion for Lego
Lego is a toy of “infinite possibilities,” for Aaron Newman, a second-year theater student, who has been building his own art out of Legos. Newman explains how he found his passion in Lego-making and has exhibited and shared his work with other people on websites. Read more...
Photo: (Song Ko/Daily Bruin Video)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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February 24, 12:32 am
Graduate student Adam Ferriss holds show featuring computer-coded art
A banana peel, a space shuttle at liftoff and a Hawaiian beach. Over and over, the projected images change, seeming to have no relation to one another. Read more...
Photo: Design | Media Arts graduate student Adam Ferriss will present his solo exhibition, “a wall with several poster painted on it.” at the Broad Art Center on Tuesday and Wednesday. Ferriss, a self-proclaimed software artist, designed his feedback loop after coding for at least two hours a day for more than a month. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)