Byron Richard, guitarist/vocalist of the band Melt belts out lyrics to a packed crowd at the House of Blues on Monday night. By Angela Salazar Daily Bruin Senior Staff Melt’s got it ““ the ambition, the talent and the presence all melted together to form a dynamic band. Read more...

  www.requiemforadream.com By Howard Ho Daily Bruin Contributor After a summer of mutant superheros and impossible missions, the Hollywood studio system can’t be reckoned with in terms of box office receipts, but times are changing and entertainment is quickly moving toward the Web. Read more...

  Illustration by HINGYI KHONG/Daily Bruin By Aphrodite Manousos Daily Bruin Contributor The latest installment in the Blair Witch chronicles, “The Secret Confessions of Rustin Parr,” reveals that even the occult can be made banal. Read more...

  Indigenous “Circle” Indigenous “Circle” Pachyderm Records Finally, the lost Stevie Ray Vaughan/Hootie and the Blowfish jamming album has emerged! Well, not really. In truth, “Circle” is the product of a hard-rocking, Native American blues quartet out of South Dakota, but man, if it isn’t an amazingly similar product to what the aforementioned artists might have made in a really weird recording session. Read more...

  Illustration by AMY HABER/Daily Bruin   By John Mangum Daily Bruin Contributor If John Schlesinger’s first love is film, then opera is his mistress. Schlesinger, the Academy Award-winning director of films including “The Falcon and the Snowman,” “Midnight Cowboy,” “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” and, most recently, “The Next Best Thing,” first tried his hand at opera nearly two decades ago when he directed Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann” at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Read more...

By Michael Rosen-Molina Daily Bruin Senior Staff The Tarantella is famous as the frenetic dance that victims of the dreaded tarantula used to perform to clean their systems of the deadly poison. Read more...

  Emilia Hwang If you would like to encourage Hwang’s celebrity status, send her plenty of fan mail at [email protected]. Stop the presses. Ben Affleck touched me. Read more...