One thing I learned a long time ago is that the music of tomorrow cannot be written without the music we have today. Read more...
Photo: The sound that Stone Temple Pilots was able to engineer in the early ’90s is a toast to the enduring influence and legacy of American music.
Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or-winning second feature, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” an intimate drama of two friends forced to seek extralegal abortion under Communist rule, played better as a thriller than a message movie. The same curious quality informs Mungiu’s follow-up, “Beyond the Hills,” a gripping depiction of a remote Romanian monastery that similarly falls short of making a statement. Read more...
UCLA Hammer Museum’s most recent exhibit may appear like an abstract, amorphous shape or some unknown alien creature. But this sculpture is more human than one may think. In fact, it is human. Read more...
Photo: The sculpture “Mirage” by UCLA alumna and artist Katie Grinnan consists of multiple casts of Grinnan’s body performing a series of sun salutation yoga poses.
The illustration accompanying this article is misleading. See the bottom of the article for additional information. At UCLA the fighting spirit is alive and well, but not in such a literal way. Read more...
Punk rock is dead, punk rock is dying, punk rock died surviving. In a year when the genre threatens to crash at full throttle back into the mainstream (or at least pseudo-mainstream), from the anguished roar of Pissed Jeans to the wheezing desperation of Iceage, the quieter anguish of Waxahatchee’s “Cerulean Salt” could easily be overlooked as a folksy interlude. Read more...
Kimberly Townes, a 2012 graduate of the UCLA theater department’s graduate directing program, said her motto for her first year at UCLA was to apply for everything with the perspective of trying, working and hoping. Read more...
Photo: School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Kimberly Townes had her thesis film “Zero” premiere on Feb. 16 on HBO. It was a finalist submission in the 2012 HBO Short Film Award competition, as part of the American Black Film Festival.
No formal training necessary, most Armenian families find time to practice their moves and rhythmic footwork on the vinyl dance floor found at family gatherings as opposed to studios lined with mirrored walls. Read more...
