There is a soccer stadium in Berlin with layers of invisible past buried below it. In the early days of the 19th century it was lower-class housing. Read more...
Photo: Kelly Cheuk Ying Ho/Daily Bruin
Arts, Lifestyle
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November 19, 12:00 am
Roundtable to debate Marlowe’s influence on Shakespeare play
In literature, the story behind the story often reveals something unexpected. On Wednesday in Royce Hall, author and UCLA Extension instructor Steve Sohmer will be arguing at a roundtable talk hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies that William Shakespeare wrote his play “As You Like It” as a commemoration of the death of fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe. Read more...
Photo: Kelly Brennan/Daily Bruin
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV
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November 19, 12:00 am
Up Next: Success of ‘Video Game High School’ model for future of web TV
The rise of original online programming has revolutionized the way we consume television. But are any of these new shows actually worth watching? Up Next highlights noteworthy original content from Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Studios and examines how the flexible online format functions within each show. Read more...
Photo: “Video Game High School” is an action comedy web series independently produced by Freddie Wong’s RocketJump Studios and funded through Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Its series finale aired Monday on YouTube. (RocketJump Studios)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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November 18, 4:26 am
Theater & More: ‘The Daisy Theatre’
With each performance, Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett returned to a single stage to select from more than 30 handmade marionettes on standby for the night’s audience. Read more...
Photo: The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA presented “Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes: The Daisy Theatre” Sunday. The show featured Canadian puppeteer Burkett’s marionettes as well as his improvisational style. (John Lambert and Associates)
Arts, Music
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November 18, 4:11 am
Album Review: ‘Four’
Listening to One Direction’s aptly named album “Four” feels like being the star of a playfully romantic music video. The pop band gained popularity when it won third place on the hit British television series “The X-Factor,” where the members met. Read more...
Photo: (Columbia Records)
Arts, Film & TV, Music
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November 18, 1:25 am
Q&A: Composer Patrick Gleeson talks film-scoring, ‘Crossroads’ legacy
Bohemian artists and beatniks flocked to San Francisco in droves during the 1950s and 1960s. At the height of this wave of migration, legendary avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Conner made the city his home and began creating filmic assemblages that juxtaposed snippets of archived footage set to music. Read more...
Photo: “Crossroads,” a 1976 film directed by Bruce Conner, utilizes footage of nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. The film, scored by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley, will be screened Tuesday at the James Bridges Theater as part of Melnitz Movies. (Magnolia Editions)
Arts, Theater & Fine Arts
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November 17, 8:36 pm
BruinFest presents UCLA club Shenanigans, other stand-up performances
The campus felt empty, dark and cold on Saturday night. It seemed like nothing could be happening except dull, intensive studying, and something in the air suggested that the ratio of frowns to smiles on campus was probably leaning heavily toward frowns. Read more...
Photo: Comedian Mike Menendez performed at the Shenanigans Comedy Club’s BruinFest: Stand Up Comedy Night in Kerckhoff Grand Salon on Saturday. (Hugh DeFrance/Daily Bruin)