Author Archives: Alfred Lee

After class last Friday, I went back to my place, plunked down in front of my computer, and checked my e-mail. That doesn’t sound like a big deal, but hard to believe as it is, it marked a momentous turning point in the school year for me, one that will significantly alter my daily routine […]

It was announced with a lot of self-congratulation that this year’s Grammy Awards ceremony would be broadcast to a lucky 690 million people around the globe. That comes as a surprise, considering I don’t know a single person who has ever watched it all the way through. So, this past Sunday, I resolutely sat down […]

The opportunity to see a hip-hop act as diverse as Boku doesn’t come around too often. Fortunately, the Fowler Out Loud series will be offering exactly that tonight at 6 p.m., when it presents a performance by Boku and Yoshi Beat Groundation in the Fowler Museum. Boku is a hip-hop band with a fluctuating membership […]

I bumped into an old acquaintance on campus the other day. Though it had been quite a while since I’d seen the guy, he refused to shake my hand. To be more precise, he couldn’t ““ his hands were too chalky from rock climbing at Wooden. He’d been doing a lot of that lately, he […]

You won’t find much about rap music in Jeff Chang’s new book ““ which would be pretty normal if it weren’t a history of hip-hop. Chang, who earned his master’s degree in Asian American studies from UCLA in 1995, will be taking his promotional tour of “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop […]

Just the other day, I was whiling away my evening like any normal college student, watching Animal Planet instead of studying. The particular program I had the pleasure of viewing on this occasion was titled “Ultimate Zoos.” It made sure to deliver on its promise, presenting some zoos that were indeed rather ultimate, including one […]

Football, as a lot of people like to point out, is a violent sport. But it doesn’t really stand out from other sports in its level of violence ““ one look at boxing or hockey, for instance, will confirm that. So what is so special about America’s most popular sport? Well, you have to give […]