Taking refuge from the downpour on Thursday night, bands blast away in an intimate setting in the Phoenix Food Court as part of the Acrobatics Everyday concert series.
Everyone knows that Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is like that kid in the corner everyone picks on. Its sophomore album "Lonely Road" justifies every reason as to why the band is handed so much ridicule... Lily Allen caught many people's attention with her first album "Alright, Still," which discussed many personal situations as well as her true feelings and opinions about them. Her second album, "It's Not Me, It's You," also includes personal dilemmas with a fresh twist to her music.
Members of the Chinese Assocation Dance Crew show off more of their killer moves at the UC Irvine Career Fest, coming straight off of the crew's victory at Vibe XIV.
The Irvine Barclay Theatre came alive with a celebration of performances new and old, covering standout pieces in a variety of genres in "Dance Visions 2009." A showcase from the UC Irvine Department of Dance, "Dance Visions" was a tribute to Donald McKayle, a Claire Trevor School of the Arts professor of dance.
The last few decades in Hollywood were awash with inspirational schoolhouse dramas that pitted an exuberant, maverick teacher against a sea of uninspired but capable students. There was always a happy ending — either through fate or fortune, the teacher managed to change the lives of every dangerous mind under his or her influence. Sadly, anyone who has ever endured public schooling, be it in a bustling city or a sleepy suburb, understands that such tidy outcomes are more the stuff of legend than reality. This decade has been a little different. "Half Nelson" (2006), an underrated drama starring Ryan Gosling as a drug-dependent middle school teacher, brought much-needed realism to the dynamics of change in the classroom.
For the past year or so now we've heard about this "change" thing floating about. But I propose that we've borne witness to a change even more drastic and far-reaching than anything else before: the integration of the nerd culture into the mainstream. But when did this happen? And how could such a revolutionary change go unnoticed? There are many factors, but I tend to believe that it all started in 1997. It was in this year that Square released "Final Fantasy VII."
I have 561 Facebook friends. I might only talk to about 65 of them on a regular basis, maybe as many as 200 if you include miscellaneous birthday wishes. My roommate has 707. In a conversation with one of my guy friends the other day, he lamented having 40 less friends then me, and has since acquired an average of 7 a day. (He feels much better about himself now.) Sadly, I accepted a friend request from my best friend's little sister's babysitter's aunt the other day. Houston, we have a problem. Luckily, Burger King has the answer. It's called the Whopper Sacrifice. Trade 10 of your friends in exchange for a free whopper!
THE SOCIAList: Before high definition television, there was a television craze over a genre that most people even myself began to criticize. That was reality TV. Reality TV seemed to be the new cop-out for networks that were suffering in the sitcom or drama series department. "COPS" aired in 1989 as one of the first reality TV shows due to a Writers Guild of America strike. Many people denigrated reality TV as "stupid" because producers were just putting crazy people in insane situations and letting the world feast off of it. You know what? Those cast members signed up for it, and I am along for the ride.
He saw his father murdered by the machete of a Mau Mau rebel when he was 13 and he forgave the killer. A genetic ailment lay dormant for much of his life, then sprung itself upon him, impairing his motor functions, but he kept teaching. One of the few professors brave enough to dole out a deserved D+, he was unfairly called a fascist, and he still gave students the chance to rewrite. Richard Kroll was tough and fair.
