Tear open a Nabisco 100-calorie pack, and you get five little crisps that resemble the conveyor belt castoffs of Oreos or Chips Ahoy. Nabisco’s new slogan is “Diet Like a Diva,” and it bears some truth. Chances are you will feel so dissatisfied with these Oreo wafers that you’ll storm off to find a pack [...]
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Civil rights tragedy brought to West Coast stage
Based on the 1955 murder of a 14-year-old black boy, ‘The Ballad of Emmett Till’ comes to the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Alkaline Trio is a punk band. Punk music, by definition, is and has always been an anti-establishment form of expression that aims to blatantly defy and oppose mainstream culture. The Hills is not punk. It came as somewhat of a surprise, then, when the nearly 14-year-old Chicago band Alkaline Trio appeared on MTV’s reality show [...]
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Comedians Baba Ji and Rajiv Saytal perform at tonight’s event organized by USC’s South Asian Rural Student Aid.
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Now, the question here isn’t whether or not Shutter Island is a good film — because it most certainly is. The question, given the director’s glowing repertoire and ’06 masterpiece, is whether or not Shutter Island is a great film. All things considered, Shutter Island finds Martin Scorsese sorely out of his element.
Teddy Daniels (Leonardo [...]
Alumna’s new album an homage to ’SC
The USC graduate’s latest remembers the singer-songwriter’s beginnings.
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Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird performed at Bovard Auditorium on Saturday.
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Our motto was “No man left behind,” but in an ocean of people packed like the Tokyo subway during rush hour, these efforts almost proved futile.
Linking arms with my traveling companions, I attempted to squeeze through the crowds in Venice, Italy’s St. Mark’s Square. The people have gathered here for the Carnevale di Venezia — [...]
MOCA opening party lets attendees make the art
The members-only event featured interactive music and art by duo Lucky Dragons.
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Martin Scorsese has been behind the development of no small number of great actors. For instance, if it weren’t for him, Robert De Niro would not be the actor he is today. And, as the director’s new film Shutter Island will confirm, if not for Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio wouldn’t be one of the best actors [...]
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