Senate mulls request for speaker funds
Program Board appeals to USG for additional funds to draw in renowned speaker.
Entries by Daily Trojan Staff
Futsal club continues to make a name for itself
In its fourth year, the indoor soccer team is slowly building a club team powerhouse.
Q&A: The Pac-10
Football writer Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz breaks down the Pac-10. With the potential return of LeGarrette Blount, will Oregon be able to contend with USC for a Pac-10 championship this year? Pundits change their minds about Oregon more often than the Ducks change their uniforms. After the Boise State debacle, the multicolored crew seemed destined for a […]
You don’t need a canvas to make art
Sports are an art. They really are. Sometimes we lose sight of that, with our focus as fans going toward making the playoffs or qualifying for the national championship game. We forget why we were attracted to sports in the first place. Plain and simple, it’s because the things athletes can do with their feet, […]
LA bands find breath of fresh air at desert fest
LA hipsters and trippy locals mingle at the second annual Manimal Festival, held at Pappy and Harriet’s last weekend.
Trojans are improving their depth
Receiver Ronald Johnson and defensive lineman Armond Armstead return to practice.
Musical pleases with its genre-bending minimalism
This is not the stuff of musicals. Gruesome murder, racism in the South, unseemly politicking, media sensationalism, official corruption, Messianism, public morality — rarely are such weighty issues even considered as themes for musicals, a genre serious theatergoers regularly denigrate for its bubbly superficiality and lack of profundity. Musicals are to theater what romance novels […]
Friendship pitted against honesty in low-budget film
“Will you read my screenplay?” This question, sometimes edited slightly to involve reading a novel or viewing a piece of art, haunts friends of those in the creative industry. It is the ultimate test and requires an important decision: honesty or friendship? The new film The Blue Tooth Virgin — winner of the 2008 New […]
Reaching the high notes
Having just released her debut album, USC senior Courtney Fortune reflects on her success.
Rites of passage come in various disguises
Amid gold confetti, topless figureheads and raging techno, I experienced my first encounter with San Francisco’s LovEvolution last weekend. In an extravagant parade down Market Street, I saw pink elephants and cage dancers, penis balloons and some Amazonian wilderness. I even witnessed at least eight nude men, each posing for pictures with girls young enough […]