Artsweek

May 11, 2006

Time To Grow Up

By Harrison Coltun

It was a couple of French guys who invented modern movies, and the French have been making films ever since. In fact, Frenchmen have been making films for so long that they give out the most important award a film can re...

May 11, 2006

NOFX- Wolves in Wolves Clothing

By system

Some kids never grow up. Or, perhaps more accurately, some kids grow up in their politics, but perhaps not so much in their lyrical styling.

May 11, 2006

Daniel Powter- Daniel Powter

By Amita Chollate

Major music television networks seemed to have taken it upon themselves to give up-and-coming artists a break in the entertainment industry.

May 11, 2006

Cd Review: Ball Hog – ONE

By Rebecca Riley

Both goofy and rabble rousing at times, Ball Hog's first album, ONE, gives an accurate glimpse of the band's live performances, as well as providing a vessel for its political views.

May 4, 2006

Hot Desert Action

By Marissa Stockham, Aly Comingore, Daniel Haier, Fergal Madigan

There's nothing like two days of nonstop stage-hopping in 95-degree heat to satiate the need for a good live show. Once again, the big money masterminds behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival spent their wee...

May 4, 2006

Notes on Coachella 2006

By Daniel Haier

Formed by outstretching one's index and pinky fingers while curling the other three, metal horns - also referred to by your God-fearing grandmother as "devil horns" - used to symbolize a concertgoer's enthusiasm for a pa...

May 4, 2006

The Wealthy Man’s Woodstock

By Matt Cappiello

"Hello, hippies," Maynard James Keenan said as his circus-metal foursome Tool took the stage at Coachella Sunday night. During the last 90 minutes of the set, I spotted two shirtless men in jester hats and a woman scream...

May 4, 2006

Modern Master

By Stephanie Cain

Modern dance pioneer of the 1950s, Paul Taylor, brought his lively choreography, technically skilled dancers and overall brilliance to a packed Campbell Hall last Wednesday evening. The Paul Taylor Dance Company's commit...

May 4, 2006

“Party Over Here, Fuck Y’all Over There”

By Harrison Coltun

At a quarter till eleven, Chief Xcel and The Gift of Gab, the duo responsible for Blackalicious, took the stage to the howling relief of the two thousand or so people lurking in the darkened food court. Gab promptly grab...

May 4, 2006

Neighborhood Shenanigans

By Rachel Hommel

In Taoism, "wu wei" means a stage of complete spontaneity. Local band Silent Wei took this concept - and its namesake - to mean unconstrained impulses. While the music created a few rhythmic ebbs and flows, the band's im...

May 4, 2006

Fit for a Queen

By Will Wolfsalu

"Kings and Queen" follows the lives of two former lovers over the period of a week. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a successful, but icy, single mother working at a trendy Parisian art gallery. She returns home to the countr...

April 27, 2006

Just the Two of Us

By Rebecca Riley

Mavis Staples' personality radiated from the stage to every seat in Campbell Hall this past Tuesday night. Considering the length of time that she has been singing - about half of a century - her voice still manages to e...

April 27, 2006

Open You EARs

By Rachel Hommel

The modern chamber ensemble California EAR Unit graced the halls of Lotte Lehmann last Saturday with a trippy blend of hallucinogenic images, chaotic sound and unadulterated emotion. Cited as "wizards of new music" by t...

April 27, 2006

Marching to a Different “Beat”

By Amita Chollate

Based on the 1978 film "Fingers," directed by James Toback, "The Beat that My Heart Skipped" tells the story of a young man conflicted between a life he is obligated to and one that he wholeheartedly wants to pursue.

April 27, 2006

Pinback @ The Hub

By Aly Comingore

Rather than dwell on what went wrong with Pinback's Thursday night show in the Hub, I choose to chalk it up to an unappreciative audience and call it a night.

April 27, 2006

Silent Hill | Night of the Living Video Game

By Will Wolfsalu

The recently released horror movie "Silent Hill" came at the crest of a small media furor. Ever since the film's announcement, the fans of the video game it was adapted from have created an avalanche of anticipation, sur...