Category Archives: Arts

By LiLi Tan Daily Bruin Contributor Students and faculty will have an excellent opportunity to see the distinction between social issues and entertainment diminish when eight of director Joseph Losey’s films screen at the James Bridges Theater. The UCLA Film and Television Archive is currently showing some of Losey’s works, through May 25. Though two […]

Various Artists “The I-10 Chronicles” Back Porch Records If you could put Willie Nelson’s snake-bitten lifestyle in a bottle, perhaps this is how he’d sound. A compilation album of folk/rock selections, “The I-10 Chronicles” tells a tale of interstate living that’s one part gnarled beef jerky, and one part sweet diner key lime pie. Counting […]

Four Star Mary to play in Hollywood Four Star Mary, whose alternative rock music is featured in the WB’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Fox’s “Party of Five” and MTV’s “The Real World,” will perform Friday at 11:00 p.m. at Jack’s Sugar Shack, 1707 N. Vine St., Hollywood. Admission is $6. For information, visit fourstarmary.com or […]

Story and photos by Mary Ciecek/Daily Bruin Senior Staff It was most likely the pop boy band *NSync that drew a sold out crowd to this year’s Wango Tango at Dodger Stadium last Saturday. 102.7 KIIS FM built a quality line-up of more than 10 artists ranging from techno to classic rock performers. But the […]

By Barbara McGuire Daily Bruin Contributor Although a Latino explosion of sorts set the music industry on fire last year, a similar outbreak has yet to take the film world by storm. Besides an absence on screen, Latina/os and Chicana/os are not always portrayed in the most realistic light in the cinema. But while movies […]

By Trinh Bui Daily Bruin Senior Staff Good and cheap are the two words you need to know about Tito’s Tacos in Culver City. The little hole-in-the-wall restaurant serves the most authentic Mexican food in all of West Los Angeles. Tito’s is one of those word-of-mouth eateries that friends recommend to friends. People in the […]

The theme song of my spring break went something like: doot doot dooh… doot dooh doot dooh… doot doot dooh…. Well, you get the idea. Judging from the profundity of my musical memoirs, you would expect the fruits of my continental European tour to pathetically match the over-played and dangerously banal Third Eye Blind ditty. […]