Pop music majors get funky for midterm
Freshmen in USC Thornton’s popular music performance class performed at the Grammy Museum for their midterm Monday.
Student website offers visitors a night on the town
NiteFlip.com, the brainchild of USC seniors Yoav Weiss and Jason Raede, provides visitors information on Downtown hotspots.
Reissues capitalize on existing fan bases
Twice a year, I pay a visit to the affectionately christened Elliott Smith Memorial Wall. Located on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, the wall — which to most simply stands as the exterior of Solutions, an electronic store — has become a sacred site for nostalgic Smith fans since the singer-songwriter’s untimely death in 2003. […]
Artist rides reputation with new album
The name Jason Derulo already draws significant recognition for a singer who has not released more than two songs to the public. An accomplished songwriter and producer, Derulo has worked with artists such as Lil Wayne and Sean Kingston before getting in the studio to record his own material. After an eight months of production […]
Modernism mixes with classicism in latest Renoir exhibit
LACMA shows paintings and sculpture from the artist’s post-Impressionism period.
Londoners ring in Year of the Tiger with food and fireworks
On the eve of London’s Chinese New Year celebration, Trafalgar Square stood empty. Standing at the top steps of the National Gallery, I relished this rarity, knowing full well that by noon the next day, every inch of the concrete-covered Downtown space — which is around the same size as Los Angeles’ Pershing Square — […]
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 […]