Bus Riders survey finds MTA flops
Students disagree with Bus Riders Union’s assessment of LA’s public transportation.
New comedy fails to reach its potential
These days, comedy’s best friend is your average Joe. Writer-producer-director Mike Judge taps into this phenomenon with his own quirky rendition of ordinary people living their ordinary lives. Judge’s latest film, Extract, is being promoted as the unofficial sequel to his box-office-flop-turned-cult-classic Office Space, harnessing the same “stick-it-to-the-man” attitude. The emphasis here, however, isn’t on […]
Federal intercession needed in CA prisons
The issue of federal vs. state governmental authority has been a bone of contention within the American political system since its foundation.
Jupiter leads USC in third consecutive sweep victory
The Women of Troy built on early momentum in an easy victory over Florida Gulf Coast.
Trojans looking for the perfect start
The USC men’s water polo team looks to begin its season the same way it ended it in 2008.
Foreign film depicts an honest, intimate portrait of family life
F. Scott Fitzgerald once famously said, “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” Still Walking, the new film by the modern Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda, is about just that kind of wound, the sort that […]
Roski launches international search to replace Dean Ruth Weisberg
Ruth Weisberg, who served as dean for 15 years, will return to the faculty to teach art classes.
Members of leadership fraternity freeze as part of flash mob
Delta Omega Zeta members stopped in their tracks today hoping to attract attention.
The wait is over: Game day is here
The famine is over. I don’t know how you survived, but you made it. The new dawn tomorrow brings a day that you’ve all been waiting eight months for — a day that seemed so far off in April, you wished you could just fall asleep and wake up on Sept. 5. Tomorrow, that insatiable […]
Tarantino once again proves maverick status
Quentin Tarantino is such a punk. Against all reason, Inglourious Basterds might just be cinema’s final word on World War II and the Holocaust. And, Tarantino is a punk for making it that way. Without giving too much away by suggestion, the much-discussed ending of his highly stylized, spaghetti Western influenced movie explosively rewrites history. […]