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POLITICS: Israeli and Palestinian speakers fight for peaceful two-state solution through university lectures.

UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama presented Naomi Iizuka’s 1997 play, ‘Polaroid Stories,’ a modern interpretation of Ovid’s ‘Metamorphosis’ and Jim Goldberg’s ‘Raised by Wolves.’ As is the running theme with most of Iizuka’s plays, her nonlinear storyline shows the audience small vignettes of each character’s trials through transformation in [...]

For those who remember actor Jeffrey Jones from ‘Amadeus,’ you’ll remember a powdered-wigged Emperor Joseph II, whose first reaction to a Mozart opera was that it had ‘too many notes.’ UC Irvine’s ‘Making Overtures’ musicians didn’t seem to mind as they mastered the works of genius composers, including Mozart, on Friday, Feb. 23 and Saturday, [...]

WATER POLO: Senior Robyn Kaake scored two goals for UCI but Cal pulled away in the overtime period.

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Less than two weeks after the Academy Awards, UC Irvine held its very own awards ceremony for the annual 24-Hour Mad Film Dash, celebrating student-made films, on Tuesday, March 6. UCI students participating in the event had 24 hours to conceptualize, write, rehearse, act, shoot and edit a five-minute film.
The teams could shoot at [...]

Monday nights at 9 p.m., millions of Americans tune in to watch ‘24,’ one of the hottest shows on television. ‘24′ depicts fictional character Jack Bauer, a federal agent who does whatever it takes to save the United States from terrorist plots of every type. Some viewers, however, are taking the series one step further [...]

A spontaneous trip abroad coincides with a spiritual journey for Elizabeth Gilbert in her nonfiction book, ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’ After suffering a very lengthy, painful divorce, Gilbert struggles with a roller coaster rebound boyfriend in her 30s. When exhaustion and depression hit her, she decides to sell everything she owns and travel for a year. [...]

Paul’s Picks

‘Sex is like a tire! ‘Cause when you get laid, it’s a Goodyear!’
‘Sex is like a tire! ‘Cause when it’s bald, it goes flat!’
No, this is not an episode of ‘Sex and the City’; Try ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ It was one of the three meetings a week where the members of Live Nude [...]