By Angela Salazar Daily Bruin Senior Staff If two best friends fighting over the same woman sounds like a TV talk show theme, then Shakespeare was the original Jerry Springer. In his comedy, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona," Shakespeare deals with the premises of love, lust and friendship. Renewed for the stage, "Two Gentlemen" will […]
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Pat Metheny brings flair to jazz guitar with style
By Chris Young Daily Bruin Contributor Guitar players of all styles should especially take note of Pat Metheny’s performance Sunday night at Royce Hall, where a major innovator of jazz graced the stage and brought a mixture of jazz and rock together in a smoking two-hour set. Metheny has steadily redefined the language of the […]
Net Scapes
Quoteland www.quoteland.com If you don’t have something nice to say but you really want to say it, chances are you can find it at www.quoteland.com. Quoteland offers a bunch of sassy retaliations, insults made by and for celebrities, as well as a collection of witty remarks often seen on the greatest bumper stickers. But not […]
Book takes inside look at grueling medical school process
By Sharon Hori Daily Bruin Senior Staff Surprisingly, history majors may have the highest acceptance rates into medical school – even over the typical biology students. According to medical school graduates John Zebala, Daniel Jones and Stephanie Jones, today’s admissions committees do not seek students who are perfect down to the grade point. In their […]
Lights, camera, Oscar
Lee Howard (left) and Mark Sullivan position a 30-foot-tall Oscar statue across the street from the Shrine Auditorium. One of many television camera crews rehearses for the preshow broadcast on the morning of last Sunday’s Academy Awards. Link Johnsten, one of 17 floral designers for Charisma Flowers, adds roses to an arrangement next to the […]
Bring in ‘da cool
By Barbara McGuire Daily Bruin Contributor Cheering groupies at a tap dancing performance may seem a bit out of place. Especially when "Who’s your daddy?" is quite possibly the only appropriate thing to scream along with them. But for a dancer who has rescued tap from the depths of the past by transforming it into […]
Careers on rise for stars of ‘Here on Earth’
By Terry Tang Daily Bruin Senior Staff Perhaps the actors from the hormone-racing WB network or FOX were too busy to do both film and TV angst. But "Here On Earth," a romantic tearjerker now playing in theaters, seems to be the only recent teen flick that isn’t serving as a starring vehicle for Joshua […]