By Chris Kokiousis
I’ve always felt like the odd one out at UCSD. The moment I walked into my Tioga freshman triple, I felt isolated — I realized I was going to be the token white kid for an entire year, and I’d never experienced such culture and identity shock. Whenever I’d peek into my suitemates’ rooms on a [...]
By Simone Wilson
Ihope all you brats out there with slam-dunk lookalikes had fun during doppelganger week. I hope you sat around all day admiring the bombshell in your profile picture and racking up “likes” and OMGs for a comment thread so fat it’s still No. 1 on my News Feed. I hope you [...]
By Philip Rhie
Being the ponderous artist that I am, I feel I possess a collection of deeply philosophical thoughts that are in dire need of relinquishing. Though I usually try to express them through comics, sometimes the uneven balance of sparse words and heavy images just isn’t enough to do them justice. Good thing I have a [...]
By Matthew Pecot
Ilove all-nighters. I love that I get so desperate for a distraction that I’ll read everything Pandora.com has to say about The Pink Spiders. I love that, the night I wrote my capstone paper for INTL 190, I reviewed most of the new Scorpions album on my Twitter. But other than all-nighters, I spend about 90 percent [...]
By Bryan Kim
When most of us think about student film, we can’t help but imagine shaky camera work, middle-school dialogue and plotlines that shoot leagues too far into the deep end. Tonight, though — beginning 8 p.m. at the Loft in Price Center East — a lineup of short films will attempt to disprove that stereotype. They’re roughly [...]
By Gretchen Wegrich
Director Charlie Oates’ version of “Seven Against Thebes” — based on the third play in Aeschylus’ Oedipus trilogy, and running as the current headliner at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre — falls simplistic and hokey in its attempt to reimagine the famous drama about a divided Grecian family. In the original, Oedipus’ two sons’ fight [...]
By Leila Haghighat
As if exposing us all to the psychosis of the Joker wasn’t enough, “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan wants to put us through some more mind-fuck. With “Inception,” Nolan posits us in an M.C. Escher world of optical illusions. City roads fold up like origami; buildings collapse; Joseph Gordon-Levitt charges down a pinwheeling corridor, defying [...]
By Arielle Sallai
For such a sizable production, there isn’t a whole lot going on in “To Be Sung” — the latest chamber opera to fill the Conrad Prebys Music Center in song. All that sits onstage — awaiting the cast before the opening notes — are a couple of big, white origami … [...]
By Gretchen Wegrich
Be forewarned: This Friday, flash-mob dancers and dudes in bizarre costumes might block your daily route to Geisel Library. The Arts in Action Festival is open-air performance to make you look — a daylong event in which students, alumni and faculty will align the fights against prejudice toward blacks, Latinos, women and homosexuals. Beginning at 2 [...]
By Trevor Cox
Christina Aguilera Bionic RCA A lot has happened in Xtina’s life since her last release, 2006’s Back to Basics. She’s settled down with her manager, popped out a kid and become an actress. But despite any signs of maturation, Aguilera’s latest is an overproduced ode to clubbing, boozing and boys — sprinkled with a few out-of-place moments of motherly [...]