Category Archives: Arts

UCLA grad Marco Sanchez delves below surface in "seaQuest DSV" Sanchez begins second season on TV program with new goals By Rodney Tanaka Marco Sanchez wants to discover himself. He wants to explore the motivations and desires that fuel his actions. To follow his progress, tune in to "seaQuest DSV," the futuristic underwater NBC series […]

King of the Pigs By Michael Horowitz Daily Senior Bruin Staff The Nine Inch Nails "Self-Destruct Tour" is back in town and it hasn’t lost much intensity or emotion. Tuesday’s show at the Universal Amphitheatre wasn’t the intimate clusterfuck of cult fans that filled the Palace, but the tight set, mood-enhancing theatrics, and still-impressive staging […]

Quiet ‘Happened’ peeks at ’90s dating Sundance Film Festival favorite succeeds with heartfelt, honest plot By Michael Horowitz Daily Bruin Senior Staff "What Happened Was" quietly presents itself as a funny, witty, romantic date movie. The winner of the 1994 Sundance Grand Jury prize is all of these things, but to try to capture its’ […]

Redgrave brings the personal onstage One-woman play mixes Shakespeare with own biography By John Mangum No matter how broad her experience as an actress becomes, Tony award-winning Lynn Redgrave always returns to Shakespeare. Ranking among the most versatile and best-known actresses today, Redgrave has performed in too many different productions in too many different genres […]

By John Sabatini With a new album released in June and an enviable opening spot on Metallica’s U.S. arena tour, this has been a colossal summer for Suicidal Tendencies, the veteran Venice surfer metal/punk band which has been scaring parents and evangelists for years. But don’t expect Suicidal to achieve "breakthrough" or pop status any […]

By Stephen Richardson As a budding young bookworm, Michael Silverblatt was attempting to wriggle away from reality, rather than toward enlightenment. But since 1989, he has hosted KCRW-FM’s "Bookworm," a weekly program in which he speaks with contemporary authors. Beginning this month, the show will be broadcast nationally, and this former recluse finds his lifelong […]

By Lael Loewenstein In 1895, when future MGM mogul Louis Mayer was in grade school and Warner Bros. scion Jack Warner in diapers, a young French visionary named Léon Gaumont took over a photographic equipment firm and created what was to become one of the world’s foremost film companies. A sampling of Gaumont’s films is […]