The Wall: Live in Los Angeles
Alumni and local creatives who performed in the one-night-only charity event hope to bring it to USC.
Genital puppeteers make high art below the waist
Puppetry of the Penis brings “the ancient Australian art of genital oragami” to stage.
In Theaters Today
Cop Out This Kevin Smith-directed action cop comedy follows Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as they track down vintage baseball cards and encounter drug dealers, money launderers and — what else — gangsters along the way. Blessing of blessings, Seann William Scott also appears. A Prophet Originally debuting at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, this […]
Embattled Polanski provides a model for troubled stars
He pled guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl more than 30 years ago and then spent three decades as a fugitive, but director Roman Polanski is still able to make a film and actually have people go see it. Considering all the intense media scrutiny of Polanski’s September arrest in Switzerland for […]
Influences on new BJM album run the gamut
With the release of its eleventh studio album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has reinvented its sound once again. Throughout its nearly two-decade existence, the band has produced a diverse catalogue of albums crossing genres from folk rock to shoegaze to noise pop, all the while maintaining its authentic ’60s psychedelic aesthetic. […]
Weekend Picks
thursday, february 25 The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees 1936-1943 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. > Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences > FREE Curious to see how poster art and film advertising looked more than half a century ago? Check out posters from the 80 movies that were […]
Websites remove the need for real life
It seems like every time you go online there’s a new website advertising the next must-have service. Some are aimed at niche interests, while others try to revolutionize the way everyday needs are met. The other day I came across such a website, Twitpay.me. Advertising “payments in 140 characters or less,” Twitpay.me is a Twitter […]
Dancers make music with feet at Bovard
Tony Award-winning tap dancer Savion Glover brought show 'Bare Soundz' to USC.
Songwriting and vocal versatility from Guillemots front man
The scruffy Fyfe Dangerfield is best known in England as the multitasking singer-songwriter-instrumentalist frontman of British avant-garde pop band Guillemots. But even after two full-length albums and three EPs, his Mercury-Prize nominated group is still obscure listening in the United States. The band is known for its orchestral approach to pop music and songs that […]
Figure skater Weir evokes lost era of glam
When American figure skater Johnny Weir glides onto the ice, people discuss more than his triple axel. Yes, it’s not easy to ignore his outlandish costumes and rocky relationship with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals because of his very public love of fur. But larger and louder than both of those is the […]