According to cartoonist, former Daily Bruin staffer and UCLA alumnus Alexander Hoffman, society is built around people who are either left-brained or right-brained. Regardless of which side your brain dominates, there’s an internal conflict that resides between the two sides. Read more...
Photo: (Vikram Kumar/Daily Bruin)
Figures covered in dust and ash, writhing: arms, legs, backs, torsos exposed, transfixed and transposed in time and space. A back-and-forth banter between a man and a woman begins on the audio track as brief newsreel footage of Hiroshima’s wreckage flashes across the screen. Read more...
Photo: “Hiroshima Mon Amour” centers on two people – one a French movie actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and the other a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) – embroiled in a steamy affair in a Hiroshima still reeling from the atom bomb. (Rialto Pictures)
Comics, once considered niche market fare, have now become the quintessence of cool. In fact, people who read comic books even land dates nowadays, according to graphic novelist Art Spiegelman. Read more...
Photo: Graphic novelist Art Spiegelman and composer Phillip Johnston demonstrated a hybrid performance of slides, talk and jazz performance at Royce Hall Wednesday night for “WORDLESS!,” presented by the Center for the Art of Performance. (Courtesy of Prudence Upton)
A year since he last took the stage with his former band, My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way seemed relieved to be performing again as he claimed the mic at The Fonda Theatre Tuesday night. Read more...
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It was the 1950s; a newer phenomenon called rock ‘n’ roll was sweeping the country, and television was starting to take its throne. It was inevitable: Video did indeed kill the radio star, and one show drove the dagger. Read more...
Photo: “The Ed Sullivan Show” acted as a mirror to the country for 23 years, turning up-and-coming artists and musicians into household names. (SOFA Entertainment/CBS)
Actor Bill Murray is the jackalope of the motion picture industry – elusive and difficult to find or predict, but oh so wonderful when he appears. Read more...
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When the band members of Atomic Walrus first sat down to pick out a band name, they wanted to encapsulate their style. The band took two names and blended them, mixing the song “Atomic Dog” by the P-Funk and the Beatles’ “I Am The Walrus.” The band’s resulting name, Atomic Walrus, embodies the band’s blended style of funk and rock. Read more...
Photo: Funk-rock fusion band Atomic Walrus will release its first EP “Slug Life” on Saturday. The band is composed of UCLA alumnus and drummer Nivedan Nayak (top), USC alumnus and guitarist Max Cohen (left) and vocalist Joe Kellman (right). (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
