Author Archives: Anthony Bromberg

Julia Sweeney’s new one-woman show, “In The Family Way,” is the most remarkable unremarkable show you’ll probably see all year. You know Sweeney from her years on “Saturday Night Live” and characters like Pat or her previous one-woman show, “God Said, “˜Ha!’” You know she has a loud, but sweet, sense of humor and the […]

The band’s name is an oxymoron: Idlewild. As hackneyed and inexpressive as most band names are, this one seems to mean something. Idlewild has punk roots and a lead singer who is heavily into literature. It’s a Scottish band with American influences that is much more popular in Scotland. So, maybe the band isn’t really […]

Crumbtown is populated by ex-cops who now play cops on television, half-twins who have the same father and birthday but different mothers and a former child TV star who’s now coke-addled and method acting. The cast of characters isn’t exactly your run-of-the-mill next-door neighbors, yet there’s still a sense of strange familiarity as you read […]

So, I feel like we haven’t talked much lately. How’re things going with you? Things are kind of busy around here. We’re making a major change pretty soon. So, here’s what’s going on: The Arts & Entertainment section of the paper is disappearing from the Daily Bruin’s daily rotation and in its place our staff […]

It’s got to be hard being one of the most beloved authors in the United States. And by hard I mean pretty easy. Take Michael Chabon, he’s recently been the first guest editor of the hip literary quarterly McSweeney’s, seen one of his books get turned into a hit movie (“Wonder Boys”) and another win […]

So you thought you’d left that teen angst behind when you came to UCLA. There wasn’t going to be any more weeping in the bathroom over boys. That was high school. Let’s face it though ““ no one’s ever too old to be thrown right back into that awkward, uncomfortable state of mind. Take, for […]