Friday, February 5, 1999 Culture Night to be a GALA affair FESTIVAL: Two-day event features dance, conference, film festival, performance by comedian Lavner By Michelle Zubiate Daily Bruin Staff When you’re a short, left-handed, Jewish, lesbian comedian from New York you pretty much have your market cornered. Combine all that with social awareness and intellectual […]
Category Archives: Arts
Feelings of love, desire soar in ‘Furioso’
Friday, February 5, 1999 Feelings of love, desire soar in ‘Furioso’ DANCE: Show at Royce Hall utilizes aerial choreography to emulate euphoric passion By Sandy Yang Daily Bruin Staff Notions of love, sex and desire have always laced dance. But in the subtly erotic aerial dances of Meryl Tankard’s "Furioso," a dance program appearing at […]
Impressionable images
Friday, February 5, 1999 Impressionable images ART: Many recognize Edgar Degas’ familiar paintings of ballerinas and race horses, but The J. Paul Getty Museum presents another side of the artist in ‘Edgar Degas, Photographer’ By Trinh Bui Daily Bruin Senior Staff Edgar Degas’ gift to the arts came on canvas occupied by ballerinas and racehorses. […]
Movie critic’s comments just opinion, not hard facts
Friday, February 5, 1999 Movie critic’s comments just opinion, not hard facts COLUMN: Every film has positives and negatives; quality is subjective trait Movies are so subjective. I base this on the fact that I have recently watched a few movies that I have felt strongly about, but the world at large seems to differ […]
‘Rocky Horror Show’ livens up the stage
Friday, February 5, 1999 ‘Rocky Horror Show’ livens up the stage THEATER: Fanatical devotees can now enjoy great music, visual excitement of popular 1975 cult classic in new venue By Michelle Zubiate Daily Bruin Staff All the way from the planet of Transsexual they’ve come bearing gifts of cheesy time warps and crazy scientists. To […]
Screenscene
Friday, February 5, 1999 Screenscene FILM: "Rushmore" Starring Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray Directed by Wes Anderson Rich with humor, quirk and charm, "Rushmore," the sophomore effort of filmmaker Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket) succeeds with flying colors in telling the skewed coming-of-age story of Max Fischer: the world’s most precocious 15-year-old. A student at the […]
Sound Bites
Thursday, February 4, 1999 Sound Bites BRIEFS: Vic Chestnutt, "The Salesman and Bernadette" (Capricorn) Aching. That’s the best way "The Salesman and Bernadette" can be described, but even that fails to fully capture the draining emotional mess it will send you into. That’s not to say it’s bad. It’s not – it’s amazing, but it […]