By Kristin Fiore Daily Bruin Senior Staff Musicians have many idiosyncrasies  biting the heads off of chickens, wearing shoe polish on their face during shows or making stage hands pick out all the brown M&Ms  and let’s not even get into Perry Ferrell. But few have the quirk of underestimating their own appeal. […]
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Gershon a
By Brandon Wilson Daily Bruin Contributor You might call it Gershon’s Giggle Theory, or perhaps the Giggling Gina Principle, but by any name at all, actress Gina Gershon has a nearly foolproof barometer to which all her prospective directors must be subjected. The actress might not be starring in directors Larry and Andy Wachowski’s "Bound" […]
Fruits of Labor
By Alicia Cheak Daily Bruin Contributor It’s small and inconspicuous. Nestled among the other art galleries on the Broadway strip in Santa Monica, The First Independent Gallery (FIG) was created in ’93 by a group of six UCLA art professors. Disillusioned with the politics of commercial art shows, they wanted a gallery which would represent […]
Sankai Juku gives brilliantly bizarre performance
By Cecily Feltham Daily Bruin Contributor A woman who saw Sankai Juku on tour in 1986 said, "It was fantastic. I fell asleep". She wasn’t being sarcastic. Intense and weird and slow and excruciating are all words that have been used to describe Sankai Juku. So her reaction was strangely normal to this five-man performance […]
Britain’s Leigh gives Hollywood the finger
By Brandon Wilson Daily Bruin Contributor There are two things that British filmmaker Mike Leigh is obviously tired of discussing with reporters. First is his trademark method of creating screenplays with a set of actors after months of intensive improv with the collective group. The other thing is the matter of his latest film "Secrets […]
Expressions of identity at Kerckhoff Art Gallery
By Susan Lee Daily Bruin Contributor If pictures were worth a thousand words, the Kerckhoff Art Gallery might resemble a giant encyclopedia collection. From the outside, the gothic architecture of Kerckhoff is striking. But once through the wooden doors of the Kerckhoff Art Gallery, it is the art that strikes the attention of students. The […]
headcrash bring their sound to UCLA
By Vanessa VanderZanden Daily Bruin Contributor Choose a non-commercial rock band. Choose Mom and Pop stores. Choose Germany. Choose Headcrash, playing at noon tomorrow at Westwood Plaza. "[Germany] is not a carbon copy of everything you see on TV," says Allen Wright, one of Germany-based Headcrash’s two lead singers. "In America, everything’s pushed to the […]