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...
Photo: (BB Gun Press)
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV, Music, Theater & Fine Arts
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October 16, 12:49 am
Throwback Thursday: ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’
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)
Arts, Film & TV
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October 16, 12:46 am
Movie Review: ‘St. Vincent’
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...
Photo: (The Weinstein Company)
Arts, Music
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October 16, 12:20 am
Mixed-genre band Atomic Walrus to release first EP ‘Slug Life’
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)
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV
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October 15, 2:59 am
Up Next: New Amazon Studios pilots suffer from weak storytelling
The rise of online original 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: “Really,” a dramatic comedy, about couples in Chicago, often more potential than other Amazon Studios pilots this fall. (Amazon Studios)
Arts, Lifestyle
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October 15, 2:59 am
Alum’s book details history of iconic political satire magazine
During Michael Kahn’s quarter in Washington, D.C., as a UCLA undergraduate during the 1960s, he stumbled upon a framed cartoon of a tattooed man in the home of one of his professors. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Michael Kahn recently published his book, “Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be,” which is on the history of Puck Magazine’s political cartoons. (Courtesy of Susan Kahn)
Arts, Music
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October 15, 2:58 am
Duo’s Fowler Out Loud concert to draw on Haitian Vodou influences
In Thursday’s musical performance at the UCLA Fowler Museum, the only instruments that Winter Schneider and Yves Figaro will use are a set of Haitian drums. Read more...
Photo: Winter Schneider, a graduate student in history, and her husband Yves Figaro (pictured with his band Chouk Bwa Libète) will perform their collaborative Haitian drumming, dancing and narrative work at Thursday’s Fowler Out Loud concert. (Courtesy of Winter Schneider)