Author Archive for Michael Chin
Outside Lands
Music festivals are great in concept, but they always come with a catch: the often enormous price tag latched onto coveted multi-day passes.
Incubus Re-examines Adolescence
MAKE-OUT: While nostalgic, Incubus’ latest album takes a pragmatic, thoughtful look at the future.
White Denim Scores High
D: White Denim manages to capture a uniquely abstract sound without getting lost in the noise.
The ‘Fantastic’ Man Man
FIZZLING: The experimental band’s latest outing provides an intense listening experience.
Architecture Meets Literature
BLDG: How does a building relate to fiction? Design Alliance answered just that question Thursday.
Why, Chuckles? Why, Mr. Squeezy?
AUTOMATED: Dredg, once a truly magnificent band, suffers a terrible fate in their latest album.
Merrill Garbus Calls Her tUnE
WHOKILL: In a strong sophomoric album, tUnE-yArDs takes sound to astonishing heights.
Sweet, Sweet Gaveston
Sexuality, death, swords, war and the devil took the stage this past week as the Claire Trevor School of the Arts presented performances Edward II at the Little Theatre. Directed by MFA candidate Adrian Balbontin, the production stayed as true to playwright Christopher Marlowe’s text as possible.
Said Balbontin that though “there have been necessary slight [...]
Wayzgoose 2011
Picture this: performances spread across three stages, eccentrically dressed people on stilts dancing to dynamic acoustic melodies, sweaty masses sitting in the shade or hustling themselves from one thing to the next, more ice cream, baked goods, bacon-wrapped hot dogs and strawberry lemonade than one could ever possibly need, a Ferris wheel that sped on with promises of bringing all that food back up, a brave few hanging from trees, parked cars and panting dogs everywhere, spaces packed with booths on flattened grass … this past Saturday, all of these things melted into the sun-drenched afternoon.
Literary Orange 2011
“We all make things up.” In his keynote speech to start the fifth annual Literary Orange this past Saturday at UC Irvine, novelist Ron Hansen presented his audience with this somewhat eccentric remark. Though he was talking about his writing, he meant it to apply outside the literary world as well, citing storytelling as an almost universal facet of human existence. Hansen made many points in his keynote speech, but like most of the talks that day, they were aimed toward the writing world.
