This year’s UCLA Wind Ensemble is the best one yet ““ at least that’s the claim made by conductor Dr. Thomas Lee. But students will get a chance to find out for themselves on Nov. Read more...
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Concert to boast virtuosic players
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Kinsey film studies sex author
Janet Jackson’s baring performance at the Superbowl. Britney kissing Madonna at the VMA. Risqué moments like these seem almost commonplace now, but in the 1940s, sex was all action and no talk. Read more...
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Digging up the golden age
With his starlit gaze and sweet, smooth voice, Max Raabe is a modern-day Rudy Vallee. On stage, the tall and slender baritone’s seductiveness is further accentuated by the elegant 1920s style tuxedo he wears. Read more...
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Jake Tracer insists he’s not making this up
No one has e-mailed me about this specifically, but I have had numerous people in the last week or so ask me two general questions in person: 1. Read more...
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Ease and magic of “˜I’m sorry’ a figment of movie world
Whenever I need to apologize to someone, I look to acting guru and personal role model Lindsey Lohan. See, there’s a famous scene in the epic, monumental and ground-breaking movie “Mean Girls” where Lohan plays the main character, Cady Heron, and apologizes at prom to all the girls in her school for an entire school year of smack-talking and gossip. Read more...
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Flirting with disaster
Everything is politics. And in the glamorous industry of filmmaking, sometimes it’s not just what you do or how well you do it; it’s mainly who you know. Read more...
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November 9, 9:00 pm
Double Feature
For writer and director Quentin Lee, the reason for screening his film’s world premiere at AFI FEST was simple. “Once you launch a film in Los Angeles, that’s it,” said Lee. Read more...