By Angela Salazar Daily Bruin Senior Staff The eclectic style and talents of jazz music are now at your fingertips. The fifth annual Westwood Jazz at the Hammer series is back with an impressive lineup of renowned performers. The festival is free and performances are at 6:30 p.m. every Friday in July in the courtyard […]
Category Archives: Arts
Getty displays photos of moments in city’s past
By Megan Dickerson Daily Bruin Senior Staff For the photographer Eugène Atget, Paris was a living organism. The groundbreaking photographer knew that Paris, like any other municipality at the turn of the 19th century, lived and breathed a dichotomy of existence; bountiful storefronts bordered the carts of lonely ragpickers, while children’s dolls sold at a […]
Net Scapes
Sputnik 7 www.sputnik7.com Sputnik7.com, an entertainment-based Web site, has so much to offer that one can easily be lost within the site, constantly discovering new and more interesting links to check out. With an opening page featuring some sperm who are supposedly “too slow” at attempting to fertilize an egg, sputnik7.com is quite an eye-catcher. […]
Star Trek actor’s novel expands on fictional universe
By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Contributor Before Isaac Asimov, the science fiction genre was similar to the horror genre, providing a chilling vision of something that might exist. After Asimov, however, science fiction writers became more like historians, documenting a future consistent with itself. Asimov’s own history of the future spanned from 1996, a time […]
Tale of lost kids is relief from formulaic flood
By Emilia Hwang Daily Bruin Senior Staff Welcome to the summer blockbuster. This year’s big-budget Hollywood production would like to introduce you to a company of actors who appear purely for your aesthetic pleasure; more water than you’d need to float an ark; and a plot with vital statistics that flatline. Thanks to your patronage, […]
Coen brothers come long way, return to directorial beginnings
By Sandy Yang Daily Bruin Staff In Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar nominated “Fargo,” the bad guys shove dead bodies into a wood-chipping machine. In their 1994 film, “The Hudsucker Proxy,” CEO and multi-millionaire, Waring Hudsucker, plunges 44 floors to his death. The bellboy cracks, “What do you call a sidewalk when it’s fully dressed? […]
Sound Bites
The MiGs “The MiGs” Self-Released Every young child who aspired to be a fighter pilot from the “Top Gun” era remembers MiGs to be the evil, shadowy airplanes flown by evil, shadowy Communists, an emblem of all things un-American and nasty. Thus, listening to the self-titled album by this L.A. sextet is a little confusing. […]