Perennial adolescence is perhaps pop punk’s favorite subject matter. From growing pains to always being at odds with the adult world, it thrives on the feeling that “no one else understands us.”
Author Archives: Lenika Cruz
The digital page
Quang has thrown away unwanted books before, but he didn’t chuck them in a trash can. He just clicked a button and ““ in a flash ““ the e-books vanished from his iPad library.
Theater Review: "Next Fall"
Despite such conventions, the Geffen Playhouse’s newest production “Next Fall” offers a sad, yet hopeful meditation on the way people’s obsession with overarching life philosophies often distracts them from the life they are living ““ a message the audience may ironically (or fittingly) miss if it becomes blindsided by its own premature assumptions about the play.
Photo exhibition “˜Art as Witness’ confronts human rights issues
A small girl beams at the camera, her eyes big and shiny, her short brown hair barely grazing her shoulders. The photo might be normal, passe even, if it weren’t for the fact that her small hands are clasping a heavy metal hammer and her entire face is smeared with black carbon dust.
UCLA alumni to perform in cemetery to celebrate classic horror literary works for “˜Wicked Lit’
A typical play rehearsal takes place indoors on a stage with decent lighting, but UCLA alumni Michael Perl and John Cogan have spent the last couple weeks running through graveyards, getting tangled in spiderwebs and slinking through underground vaults, all under the cloak of night.
Washing Away the Silence
Two years ago, when graduate film student Vanessa Yee began brainstorming ideas for her thesis film, her mother was diagnosed with pancreatitis. Afterward, Yee didn’t tell her friends or classmates.
Revolutionary theater
Together, science and religion have endured a long, messy history.