Friday, August 14

In the news:

UCLA to screen alumna’s first feature film ‘Arcadia’

As UCLA professor A.P. Gonzales asked his students to write down their earliest memories, Olivia Silver took paper to pen and relived the moment of shock she felt upon arriving at her new home in the San Gabriel Valley after driving cross-country from Connecticut. For Silver, this would be the first step in creating her first feature film, “Arcadia.” Read more...

Photo: Melnitz Movies will screen UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Olivia Silver’s first feature film “Arcadia” Friday.


Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air’

France, around 1971: bohemian kickback, heroin flowing, bonfires blazing; nude or half-nude, the Marxists-maybe-Maoists dance, music booming, politics looming. Embers flicker in the air, romance, youth and ennui and smoke, tasseled together inseparable, floating ethereal into nevermore. Read more...





Band Nonagram puts an original spin on jazz melodies

After playing in several jazz groups in which the names of the bands were anagrams of the musicians’ names, the members of Los Angeles-based jazz trio Nonagram decided the band’s name would be not another anagram. Read more...

Photo: Jazz trio Nonagram will perform its original music, which is influenced by the sounds of singer-songwriters, jazz heroes and Western classical music, in the newest addition of the Fowler Out Loud concert series.