UCLA’s Valenzuela brings fresh approach to well-known opera

UCLA’s Valenzuela brings fresh approach to well-known opera By John Mangum Jose Luis Valenzuela doesn’t work with clay, but could be called a type of sculptor. Instead he transforms an untouched opera into something that an audience can interpret and make its own. Valenzuela, a professor in UCLA’s theater department, tackles opera for the first […]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of déjà vu

Indiana Jones and the Temple of déjà vu Disneyland’s newest ride, based on the three-movie adventures of the famous archaeologist, offers three doors representing wealth, knowledge and eternal youth ­ too bad they all lead to the same room. So much for the amusement park’s ‘interactive’ creation. By Michael Horowitz Daily Bruin Senior Staff Banish […]

Tool members simply don’t care if they’re misunderstood

Tool members simply don’t care if they’re misunderstood Alternative ‘clenched-teeth metal’ band serves as catharsis for pent-up frustration By Gaby Mora Daily Bruin Staff On a surface level it is easy to hate Maynard James Keenan and his band Tool. Keenan is reserved and inexorable; Tool is loud, abrasive, and deals with uncomfortable subject matter. […]

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film review icon Roommates Directed by Peter Yates. Written by Max Apple and Stephen Metcalfe. Starring Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore and Ellen Burstyn. If Roommates wasn’t a true story, someone almost certainly would have dreamed it up. Based on the relationship of writer Max Apple and his grandfather, the scenario follows a boy […]