Category Archives: Arts

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 […]

By Jennifer Richmond Daily Bruin Staff Death can be a scary thing. But the revelations about oneself and one’s family that come with impending demise can be the most wonderful experiences in life. In Scott McPherson’s play "Marvin’s Room," Bessie (Mary Steenburgen) discovers the importance of these life lessons. Bessie has been taking care of […]

By Judith Newman The New York Times NEW YORK — Worried that the Menendez brothers’ trial, violent movies and talk-show depravity have numbed the nation’s sense of moral outrage? Worry no more. It’s there. If you have any doubts, just walk into a bookstore and request a book about modeling geared toward prepubescent girls. "You […]

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 […]