Author Archive for Alexandra Piotrowski
UCIPD Investigating Photos on Gay Web sites
POLICE: Dispatcher on paid leave for allegedly posting photos of water polo players on gay porn Web site
Ghost Stories Grow Up
I am not brave. I don’t find entertainment in being scared and there is nothing that even mildly turns me on about being in a state of anguish. When it comes to wondering about my safety, there is no possibly favorable outcome, at least for me. Furthermore, nothing amuses me about danger; no adrenaline rush [...]
Less Tricks, More Treats; Here’s To An Un-boring
I was four when I first remember my mother dressing me up for Halloween. I was a disco-cowgirl, Halloween being the best excuse my mom had to wrap her baby in a fluffy feather boa and sequined 10-gallon hat and send her into the dark October night. And while pink cowgirl boots might explain my [...]
New Campus Magazine: Incite
College campuses are supposed to be rollicking hotspots of passion and activism for idealistic and determined youth. Unfortunately, it often seems like our generation, despite good intentions, is more interested in Xbox and ‘The Hills’ than awareness and community. Enter Incite Magazine, a publication that makes a splash in the puddle of the status quo [...]
Finding a Heartbeat in Orange County: Life in the ‘Vine’
There are many qualities that I find enchanting about college life in Irvine. The fact that our mascot is an anteater tickles me immensely and the overwhelming safety is very soothing when a late-night trip to Starbucks beckons. Also, who can overlook the delight of having a Yogurtland within a five-mile radius? But UCI is [...]
Warhol’s ‘Girls’ Reward the Patient
‘When it came out in 1966, Newsweek called it ‘The Iliad of the Underground’ and Rex Reed called it ‘a three-and-a-half-hour cesspool of vulgarity and talentless confusion which is about as interesting as the inside of a toilet bowl,” said Karen Moss from the floor of HIB 100 as she introduced the Andy Warhol film [...]
James Bond Returns in All His ‘Royale’ Glory
A blond Bond, an obscure Bond girl and no laser beam of death waiting to melt the polar ice caps as part of a plot to take over the world? This all spells out the best Bond movie possible.
The opening scene of ‘Casino Royale,’ the grainy black-and-white shot of James Bond (Daniel Craig) finishing his [...]
OCMA Makes Thursdays Interesting Again
It’s Thursday night, and somewhere between work and writing that essay which was supposed to be done a week ago, I dragged my roommate away from our television and convinced her that taking advantage of the Orange County Museum of Art’s free Thursday night admission was a better use of time than procrastinating on her [...]
Finding Art in Unusual Places
I have a confession to make: I am not an art connoisseur. I can appreciate masterpieces and beautiful things for their aesthetic pleasure, but I fail to notice what distinguishes most modern art from scribbles and creative musings. Therefore, I would not say I am inept to judge two new art exhibits at UC Irvine, [...]
