By Chris Kokiousis
Thanks to blogs, finding dope jams is really easy now. The flipside of this buttery bread, however, is the deluge of shit to listen to. There are music blogs for every subgenre you can concoct — hundreds thrown into the “chillwave” and “glo-fi” categories alone. But I’ll gloss over that hipster chaff and focus on [...]
By Simone Wilson
If you’ll accept my disclaimer: I do understand the tenderness of this topic. Racist gags at UCSD, all inexcusable, have been consuming our thoughts and guts for almost three weeks now; personally, it’s hard to remember a time when Geisel Library made me think of cool spaceships instead of lynches/punctured pillowcases, or the days when [...]
By Philip Rhie
I’m gonna be honest here and say that the request for this week’s column has been a little more than awkward. I don’t have anything to really say, since nothing’s really been going on in my head besides my personal and professional (read: academic) life. But, having just finished drawing my latest strip, I figure that, [...]
By Janani Sridharan
He’s known in the hip-hop world as Night Prowl Mike Gao — and, fittingly, a good spot to find him is at the music building after midnight. No, he’s not a creeper or anything. He’s just a 24-year-old hip-hop beatmaker/ first-year computer-music Ph.D. candidate with a thing for staying up all night making music. “Oh man, the [...]
By Jenna Brogan
How could Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” possibly go wrong? It’s every tripper’s favorite childhood storybook, given the filmic budget of a god, then recreated by the same weirdo cast and director that rounded up cult and critical kudos for “Sweeney Todd” in 2007. But somehow, “Wonderland” is the uglier, misshapen Red Queen to the [...]
By Jenna Brogan
How could Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” possibly go wrong? It’s every tripper’s favorite childhood storybook, given the filmic budget of a god, then recreated by the same weirdo cast and director that rounded up cult and critical kudos for “Sweeney Todd” in 2007. But somehow, “Wonderland” is the uglier, misshapen Red Queen to the [...]
By Gretchen Wegrich
It may be grim, but there’s enough humor in Anton Chekhov’s dark comedy “The Seagull,” this week’s headliner at Mandell Weiss Forum, that you can leave your Prozac at home. Silly and sad, it’s perfect date fodder for a mismatched couple. Konstantin, a young and unappreciated playwright, is at the center of a messy love pentagon [...]
By Gretchen Wegrich
If you’ve never experienced a Mandeville Center cultural event, consider giving conceptual artist Lauren Woods’ multimedia exhibit “M(other)land” a quick peek the next time you find yourself near Main Gym. While the messages behind some of her videos and images are sometimes hard to grapple, a long look at the new exhibit reveals the Bay Area [...]
By Janani Sridharan
He’s known in the hip-hop world as Night Prowl Mike Gao — and, fittingly, a good spot to find him is at the music building after midnight. No, he’s not a creeper or anything. He’s just a 24-year-old hip-hop beatmaker/ first-year computer-music Ph.D. candidate with a thing for staying up all night making music. “Oh man, the [...]