Sayonara Sag-Faces — It’s Been Apathetic

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 [...]

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Move Over, Ke$ha: I’m Graduating

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 [...]

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Sick of the Same Old Anime

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 [...]

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Jonesin’ for a New Sound

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 [...]

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Best of the Basement

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 [...]

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Oedipus Takes Kentucky

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 [...]

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FILM

In the Summertime, When the Weather is Fine

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 [...]

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THEATER

The Opera, in Abstract

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 … [...]

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ART

Real Art, Real Action

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 [...]

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MUSIC

Xtina Trades Retro Soul for Poseur Hipster Beats

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 [...]

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