Thomas Schumacher, one of Disney Feature Animation’s most influential creative forces and president of Disney Theatrical Productions, briefly escaped the Broadway lights earlier this year to handle a speaking engagement at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He arrived on campus early and used the free time to walk through the North Campus Student Center, one […]
Author Archives: Andrew Lee
Radio host, cartoonist pair up for storytelling at Royce
Sometimes it takes very little to reinvigorate a dying art form. At a time when public radio trails even network television in terms of innovation, it may come as a surprise that one of National Public Radio’s most creative programs has risen to the top just by keeping it simple. Very simple, in fact. Radio […]
Wrens balance musical success, day jobs
Charles Bissell is a natural born rock singer. His chords don’t have an effortless cool like Lou Reed’s, but instead a kind of natural brashness, an every-word-counts urgency that can turn even the most pedestrian lines into a keening credo. But he’s hardly a natural-born rock star. At the finance department of a New York-based […]
Budget cuts jazz up concerts
The UCLA Student Committee for the Arts is known for bringing big-name concerts to campus, from Love and Arthur Lee last year to George Clinton in spring 2002. But faced with a budget that cut their spending power in half from 2002-2003, the group has aimed for a more low-key affair with less star power […]
[Online] “˜Forgotten Terror’ exhibit highlights lingering effects of World War II
If there’s one potential misconception UCLA alumnus Jean Chung wants to shake off, it’s that “Forgotten Terror,” the art exhibit she helped organize, treads on old ground. Her concern rests on the fact the exhibit is related to wartime atrocities committed decades ago during World War II. But consider one display by photographer Cheol Hoon […]
Archive to screen political documentaries
Of the 11 political documentaries being screened by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in the two-week series “This is Not Your TV,” one clear highlight is acclaimed filmmaker Errol Morris’ new work “Fog of War: Eleven Lessons of Robert S. McNamara.” One of the most celebrated documentary makers in recent history, Morris will be […]
Soundbites
Basement Jaxx “Kish Kash” Astralwerks This album isn’t quite the house music with which your older brother grooved along, which means it isn’t quite the house music this famed duo touted toward the end of last century. The third straight masterstroke by Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton dishes out ear candy in handfuls and at […]