While dystopian films have always been fashionable, they have widely grown in popularity since the success of movies such as “The Hunger Games” and “The Matrix.” At this point, “The Giver” is old news, centering on a theme that has been developed previously on-screen. Read more...
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If Beyoncé’s first version of “Flawless” was angry, then her remix with Nicki Minaj is seething. But in that seething remix, Beyoncé loses what was originally a powerful message about feminism and convolutes the theme of being a flawless woman. Read more...
The world first met Robin Williams as Mork, a fast-talking alien who had come to observe The Fonz and Richie Cunningham in the 1970s hit show Happy Days. Read more...
Sultry, sexy, her voice famously husky and effortlessly cool, Lauren Bacall epitomized the very definition of “movie starlet” for more than half a century. With her passing on Tuesday at the age of 89, Hollywood has lost one of its greatest actresses. Read more...
Photo: Actress Lauren Bacall passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89. Bacall starred in movies such as “To Have and Have Not” (1944), “The Big Sleep” (1946) and “Dark Passage” (1947). In 2009, she received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (Courtesy of The Silver Screen Collection)
On Thursday, more than 30 years of musical collaboration will reverberate off the walls of the Hammer Museum. In addition to an esoteric musical style that crosses various genres, what really sets The Jeff Gauthier Goatette apart from other bands at the Hammer Museum’s summer JazzPOP series is its long history. Read more...
Photo: JazzPOP concert series will conclude on Thursday with a performance by The Jeff Gauthier Goatette at the Hammer Museum. The group, formed in the late 1970s by Jeff Gauthier, will play music from past albums, improvisational work and a newly arranged piece by Gauthier. (Courtesy of Jeff Gauthier)
In the distant future, all that is left of the pods and modern nuances of the Charles E. Young Research Library is a stripped wooden structure and devastation. Read more...
Photo: “S.P.Q.R.,” a mural painted by UCLA graduate Terry Schoonhoven in 1974, was rediscovered as one Schoonhoven and the L.A. Fine Arts Squad’s best preserved works. The mural depicts Schoonhoven’s vision of UCLA’s apocalyptic future. (Angie Wang/Daily Bruin senior staff)
In the late ’90s, first-grade buddies Jacob Hemphill and Bob “Bobby Lee” Jefferson of reggae band SOJA set out from Washington, D.C., on a musical journey that has since culminated in six studio albums and several international tours. Read more...
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