Monday, October 26, 1998 Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosts showing of works by Picasso EXHIBIT: Sculptor, poet, painter famous for use of surreal, cubist style By Amanda Miller Daily Bruin Contributor Sensuality and aggression, serenity and protest, hope and anguish … the feelings Pablo Picasso conveys through his art emerge as vividly as […]
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Sound Bites
Monday, October 26, 1998 Sound Bites The Queers, "Punk Rock Confidential" (Hopeless Records) With a name like "Punk Rock Confidential," you would expect the 15 song album to be nothing more than a string of fast and angry ditties about getting drunk in someone’s garage. The Queers don’t limit themselves to this particular genre  […]
Miles from typical stereotypes
Monday, October 26, 1998 Miles from typical stereotypes Asian American artists defy Hollywood’s typecasting by creating a new look for themselves and examining their misunderstood, misrepresented culture in the annual event Å’Treasure in the House’ By Sandy Yang Daily Bruin Contributor The average moviegoer or television viewer probably won’t recognize the kind of Asian representations […]
Movie shows Holocaust’s lighter side
Monday, October 26, 1998 Movie shows Holocaust’s lighter side FILM: Italian Benigni shines as actor, writer in Å’Life is Beautiful’ By Ash Steffy Daily Bruin Contributor Perhaps the most surprising thing about "Life is Beautiful", winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, is the relatively benign way it depicts the […]
Herr apparent
Friday, October 23, 1998 Herr apparent THEATER REVIEW: ‘Fosse: A Celebration in Song and Dance’ establishes Bob Fosse as an influential choreographic force  even if the show occasionally drags By Cheryl Klein Daily Bruin Senior Staff A monstrous photograph hovers in transparent black and white over the stage of the Ahmanson Theatre. Apparently caught […]
Cracker concert crumbles fans’ composure
Friday, October 23, 1998 Cracker concert crumbles fans’ composure MUSIC: Intense interplay between band, audience creates a rousing concert By Brent Hopkins Daily Bruin Contributor As the multicolored curtains of the House of Blues parted late last Wednesday, it wasn’t clear exactly what was in store. The bill advertised Cracker as the headline act, but […]
Screen Scene
Friday, October 23, 1998 Screen Scene "The Alarmist" Directed by Evan Dunsky Starring David Arquette, Stanley Tucci, Mary McCormick and Kate Capshaw "The world is a dangerous place. Live safely," offers the final moments of "The Alarmist." That’s a good point  the only one the strangely comical film even hints at in an hour […]