INTRO Digging into the record shelves of the past and filing through the film drawers of yesterday, the new column from the A&E; editors, Throwback Thursday, brings you some of the greatest and most overlooked A&E; talent of the past. Read more...
Arts, Film & TV
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October 3, 12:29 am
Movie Review: ‘Gravity’
A science fiction movie has never won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Cultural landmarks such as “Star Wars” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” lost to more personalized narratives about the complicated art of love and the teachings of a philosophical leader. Read more...
Arts, Lifestyle
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October 3, 12:24 am
UCLA student takes scientific approach to capturing scenic shots
The original version of this article contained an error and has been changed. See the bottom of the article for additional information. Jeff Lewis was hiking a 4,000-foot mountain in Washington when the rain turned to snow and the winds began to blow at 50 miles per hour. Read more...
Arts, Music
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October 3, 12:19 am
American Youth Symphony fine-tunes new pieces for season opening
An eerie, spectral sound drifts from the recesses of Schoenberg Hall, where an orchestra rehearsal for a Royce Hall performance takes place. At first, the dissonant melody makes little sense as the string instruments climb higher and higher on steps of parallel fifths, the woodwinds and brass attempting to follow. Read more...
Arts, Lifestyle
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October 2, 12:38 am
Q&A: Author Michael Jeffrey Lee talks about ‘Something in My Eye’
After graduating from UCLA in 2004 with a degree in English, Michael Jeffrey Lee traded in his native California coastline for the Gulf Coast, moving to New Orleans. Read more...
Photo: Michael Jeffrey Lee, author of “Something in My Eye,” is a creative writing teacher in the New Orleans Center of Creative Arts as well as a UCLA alumnus.
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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October 2, 12:07 am
Hammer Museum dusts off artist Forrest Bess’ work
Forrest Bess was an artist caught between two worlds, and this internal struggle can be viewed within his artwork shown at the Hammer Museum. For the first time in over 20 years, the abstract expressionist painter Forrest Bess’ work is being displayed, with a total of 50 pieces of his artwork from 1946 to 1970. Read more...
Photo: The Hammer Museum’s new exhibit, “Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible,” explores the naturalistic works of the expressionist painter.
Arts, Lifestyle
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October 2, 12:00 am
Book Review: ‘Something in My Eye’
Much like having something stuck between your eyelid and cornea, UCLA alumnus Michael Jeffrey Lee’s writing can be very uncomfortable. “Something in My Eye,”Lee’s debut short story collection, resulted in his receiving the 2010 Mary McCarthy Prize for short fiction. Read more...