Reality television can easily be deemed as one of the most vapid and fabricated things in the entertainment world today. Read more...
Photo: The performance group The Neo-Futurists will perform at the Hammer tonight, blending sport, poetry and experience in 30 short plays. These 30 plays change weekly, and the members who are performing write something new for each week. This has allowed the Chicago Neo-Futurists to produce more than 6,000 two-minute plays.
Never under any circumstances would I choose to return to elementary school P.E. class. Do you remember that bespectacled girl who always got hit in the face during soccer only to start crying out on the field and have to be sent away from the game to put herself together again? Read more...
Studying history so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past is reasoning grade school students repeatedly hear. Yet what, then, is the purpose of fictionalizing history? Author Glen David Gold would argue that fictionalizing history does not necessarily mean ruminating upon the past but rather using historical figures and places as characters and settings for compelling storytelling. Read more...
Photo: The author of the bestselling historical fiction book “Carter Beats the Devil,” Glen David Gold, will read from his upcoming novel “Sunnyside” at the Hammer tonight.
Los Angeles is often the cinematic setting for million-dollar blockbusters and film student projects alike, as well as providing rich material for independent, experimental films. Today, two distinctly L.A. filmmakers will be screening their off-beat, artistic work at the Billy Wilder Theater in the program "Restoring the Los Angeles Avant-Garde." Read more...
I'm a big fan of his and have always thought that a lot of the things Woody Allen does are figuratively worth about a million bucks. But last week, the filmmaker/actor/professional self-deprecator settled a lawsuit with American Apparel for the sum of $5 million dollars. That money could get you over 166,000 pairs of AA leggings or a crummy studio apartment on the Upper West Side. Read more...
Los Angeles is about 3,000 miles away from Bryant Park, the famous location of New York's fashion week. Regardless, the drama and glamour of the fashion world is about to be "Unleashed" upon UCLA "“ thanks to the unbounded creative talent of some of our most fashion-savvy fellow Bruins. Read more...
Photo: Designer Stephanie Sartori, fourth-year art history student, puts last minute touches on her dress, modeled by fourth-year political science and Chinese student Anna Snyder.
Aimee Sorek, third-year art student: "My designs are different takes on the same dress. I design dresses for that girl who doesn't need a guy to make her feel beautiful "“ she can just throw on a dress and go party and dance." Read more...
