Friday, June 26

“˜The Reckoning’ offers odd mix of mystery, modern storytelling

“The Reckoning” Directed by Paul McGuigan Paramount Classics Potential punch lines and clever witticisms aside, it seems almost too ironic that Paramount Classics decided to release “The Reckoning” just a week after the opening of “The Passion of the Christ.” Both films deal with the foundations of Christianity, but in almost exclusively opposite ways, and end up having equally opposite setbacks. Read more...


Review: Corporate aspect discredits art work

While traditional museum exhibits display art on white walls in square-shaped rooms, the “Rewarding Lives” installation of Annie Leibovitz’s photographs presents art in spherical spaces to complement the two-dimensional photographs. Read more...


Calendar: Theater & Arts

Zaera-Po Perloff Hall Facility March 4, 6:30 p.m. The dean of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and principal of Foreign Office Architects in London, Alejandro Zaera-Polo will be lecturing about what it took to construct the Yokohama Port Terminal, along with other topics on architectural design and urban planning. Read more...



Soundbites

Zero 7 “When It Falls” Elektra Subtle seduction and smooth sophistication are much sexier than overt licentiousness. This defines U.K. band Zero 7’s cooler-than-Mod Squad cool, bedroom-intimate, mid-tempo, chill out music. Read more...


Calendar: Music

Third Annual California A Cappella Festival Bradley International Hall March 6, 8 p.m. Campus songbirds Random Voices hosts this popular event where dueling collegiate a cappella groups from all over the state come to find out just who should be the most embarrassed to have patterned themselves after those creepy singers from “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” Admission is free. Read more...