Ever since drummer David Kitz joined indie pop group Princeton, his life has been a balancing act. Read more...
Photo: Ben Usen and David Kitz joined twin brothers Jesse and Matt Kivel to form Princeton, a Los Angeles-based indie band named after Princeton Street in Santa Monica. The group will perform tonight at the Troubadour.
My postmodern American fiction class this quarter began by reading an author who wrote an essay called "The Literature of Exhaustion." Read more...
With all of its fist-pumping, hair-spiking, spray-tanning, dance-floor-battling glory, MTV's "Jersey Shore" was an unparalleled success for the network. Read more...
French and American tastes could be described as oil and water. Frogs' legs and a penchant for coffee and cigarettes are far removed from the fast-food nation mixed with celebrity pop culture that America may be known for. Read more...
Among Hollywood's so-called "difficult" writers, those who insist upon a level of intellectual effort that isn't required to understand the human-Na'vi conflict, Charlie Kaufman is perhaps uniquely focused on finding new ways to represent psychological reality. In his most successful films "“ "Being John Malkovich," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Adaptation" and "Synecdoche, New York" "“ Kaufman often seems to be thinking out loud, on the screen, as he works through his stories. Read more...
Photo: Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s film, “Synecdoche New York,” stars actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (left) as Caden Cotard, who spends years building a replica of New York City in a warehouse.
In hopes of educating viewers about political issues concerning the Philippines, the Pilipino Performance Night at the Fowler Amphitheater will be highlighting a variety of talents and individuals dedicated to a cause that is close to their roots. With participants that span across campus and beyond, the event is largely a collaborative effort to inform students about the many injustices that are currently occurring and manage to escape mass knowledge. Read more...
Jacqueline Hoang's senior honors thesis quickly became more than a mere school project. Her theatrical adaptation of a John Keats poem became a personal mission in which she invested her time, a great deal of money and all of her effort. Read more...
Photo: Actors Chris Fleischman, Jordan Simkovic, Lisa Douglass and Kyle Blythe will perform this weekend in Jacqueline Hoang’s thesis production of “Lamia,” a Greek tragedy about passion, love and lust. The fourth-year English student’s senior honors thesis is an adaptation of John Keats’ poem of the same name.
