Thursday, July 2

Q&A: The New Pornographers frontman talks latest album ‘Brill Bruisers’

More than four years since the release of its critically acclaimed album “Together,” Canadian indie rock pop band the New Pornographers has re-emerged in the pop scene with its latest record, “Brill Bruisers.” Having made a more conscious effort to unite the album musically and lyrically, the arpeggio- and synthesizer-heavy “Brill Bruisers” has brought a new element of consistency to the band, who performed Friday night at the Wiltern. Read more...

Photo: Canadian band the New Pornographers is touring to promote its recently released album, “Brill Bruisers.” The band performed at the Wiltern in Los Angeles Friday. (Courtesy of Chris Buck)


The pLAces you’ll go: Wildlife Learning Center

There are more than 500 square miles of city surrounding UCLA’s campus, which takes up a minuscule fraction of that mileage. For such a big place, Los Angeles at times seems impossible to navigate. Read more...

Photo: The Wildlife Learning Center is home to about 70 wild animal species, including sloths (pictured above), alligators, fennec foxes and bald eagles. (Erin Ng/Daily Bruin senior staff)


Q&A: UCLA Film and Television Archive explores voices of Chinese cinema

Running from Oct. 17 to Nov. 3 at the Billy Wilder Theater, the second “China Onscreen Biennial” presents a collection of Chinese films, complemented with visual art slideshows and panels featuring directors and other special guests. Read more...

Photo: On Oct. 17 to Nov. 3, the second “China Onscreen Biennial” film series will be shown at the Billy Wilder Theater. The series presents a collection of Chinese films, such as “The Sun Also Rises” (pictured above), complemented with visual art slideshows and panels featuring directors and other special guests. (UCLA Film and Television Archive)



“Balance Your Hyphen” Comic Strip Workshop

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)


‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ still a classic, innovative film

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)


Theater & More: ‘WORDLESS!’

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)