Category Archives: Arts

By Colburn Tseng Writer-director Rory Kelly slouches in a chair at the Westwood Marquis Hotel munching on cookies when he makes a surprising disclosure. The topic of conversation is the UCLA film school graduate’s employment history before directing his debut feature "Sleep With Me," which recently opened in New York and Los Angeles. After working […]

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 John Irvin The camera shows what appears to be a female figure seated on a chair. She is wearing tight pants and stockings, and she is blindfolded. Her hands are tied behind the chair. The photograph is a self-portrait by Pierre Molinier. A viewer might ask why a woman appears as the subject of […]

By Brian Remick If for only an hour or two, it seemed that the reign of hard rock over the Palace temporarily ceased with the presence of a small Australian band named Frente! (exclamation point intended and definitely necessary). Indeed, last Friday night the band showed the guests of the Palace that acoustic rock is […]

By Barbara E. Hernandez Daily Bruin Staff The month of September holds special meaning to Jews, a month centering around Judaism’s high holidays, a time of moral analysis and the celebration of the new year. The Kerckhoff Art Gallery honors the high holidays with the exhibit, "What Jews Do in September: Accounting and Atoning," banding […]

By Nisha Gopalan Not since the Revolting Cocks’ "Beers, Steers & Queers – Drop Your Britches Mix" has a band so provocatively incorporated the subject of sodomy into a song – until now. Enter Florida’s Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson, the group, manipulates voice textures and bizarre soundbites to add to the disturbing tone of their […]