Unlike the Academy Award for best picture, which usually prides the biggest achievements in American and English cinema over the last year, the Oscar for best live-action short film is a more international accomplishment. Read more...
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It was business as usual: someone yelled, “Take off your shirt” through the staff introductions while Styx lead vocalist Lawrence Gowan, a guest at the affair, stood on top of his plastic chair to strike a pose. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumnus and “Family Guy” showrunner Steve Callaghan (left) and alumnus and “Family Guy” staff writer Patrick Meighan (right) run through a script and discuss ideas for an upcoming episode. The two have been working on-and-off since meeting in 1991 at UCLA. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
As the sun sets over Los Angeles and the city lights flicker on, most museums are closing their doors for the night. On Thursday, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will do just the opposite, as it invites 1,800 students after hours to what education coordinator Amber Smith describes as the buzzing atmosphere of College Night. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host its annual College Night on Thursday. LACMA will invite 1,800 students for free access to exhibitions, food and workshops. (Courtesy of Erin Yokomizo)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: Tom Siddell’s “Gunnerkrigg Court” is a webcomic that follows friends Kat and Annie studying magic in a boarding school in England. (Courtesy of Tom Siddell)
BY SEBASTIAN TORRELIOA&E; senior [email protected] Every year, the Academy Award nominations for best animated short film can be pared down to a few types: the one with the name brand, the one with the witty premise, the one nostalgically targeted toward children, the one filled with sincere emotion and the one that pushes animation’s technical boundaries. Read more...
The anonymously submitted secret that second-year undeclared student and poet Lydia Janbay chose to write about is one she could personally connect with. Janbay is one of seven UCLA students who will perform spoken word revolving around anonymous secrets submitted by fellow students Wednesday at Royce Hall Terrace in “The Ghost Writer Confessions.” The event is hosted by the Student Committee for the Arts at UCLA and will precede PostSecret creator Frank Warren’s “PostSecret Live” event at Royce Hall. Read more...
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It was announced by local radio station KROQ Monday that Tom DeLonge, co-founder and co-frontman of Blink-182, had left the band “indefinitely.” The band announced that he was to be replaced by Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio for the remainder of the band’s previously booked shows. Read more...
Photo: Members of pop-punk band Blink-182 announced Monday that founding member and co-frontman Tom DeLonge had left the band indefinitely in order to focus on non-musical endeavors. (Courtesy of IllaZilla)
