Author Archive for Ginny Wang
Songfest
UC Irvine’s Songfest 2008 kicked off its 30th anniversary last Thursday night with a dazzling showcase of Irvine Greeks on Broadway. On May 22, the Bren Events Center transformed into the Tony awards as each fraternity and sorority on campus performed individual renditions of hit musical shows such as “Wicked” or “Damn Yankees.” Parents, students and alumni gathered together for a three-hour non-stop sequence of song and dance.
I Do!
UCI Alumnus Tony Pang proposes to his girlfriend of 3 years, Mayu Onozaki, on Ring Mall on April 16, while their colleagues from Arroyo Vista Housing Complex surround them to sing “I’ll Stand By You.”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
What is a dream but a portal that takes us into the depths of our imagination? Great dreams allow us to reach the highest peaks of our fantasies while nightmares unleash the unconscious anxiety and guilt brewing within us. Friday night’s performance of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ transported audiences into a fantastical and wondrous [...]
AP Student Disturbed in Kessler’s ‘Keith’
Movie about high school students. I thought the point of college was to get away from all of this shit?
‘Juno’ ‘Knocks Up’ the Box Office
At the age of 16, worries like getting a license or dating are common, but Juno MacGuff’s dilemma has 10 toes and 10 fingers.
‘No, I’m sure it’s not a food baby’ is one of the many priceless quotes in ‘Juno,’ a refreshingly original movie about a young teenage girl who unexpectedly becomes pregnant. If what [...]
Getting To Know Your Vagina
Winter is the season to celebrate the return of the ‘Vagina Monologues.’ Every year, around the month of February, V-DAY UCI, a collaborative group of male and female students, put together their own rendition of Eve Ensler’s ‘Vagina Monologues.’ Written in 1996, this play follows multiple stories told by different women about their experiences of [...]
Whirling into Heaven
Every country has an ethnic tradition that makes it unique from every other culture in the world. While the United States tends to emphasize its difference through food and holidays, others choose to outwardly perform their individuality in the form of singing and dancing. On the night of Nov. 20, UC Irvine’s Barclay Theatre experienced [...]
Murakami Exhibits ‘Sperm Lasso’ at MOCA
When Kanye West sang, ‘That don’t kill me, can only make me stronger,’ he was probably not thinking about a life-size, anatomically incorrect anime boy who whips his homemade sperm lasso in your face. Not only is this grotesquely bizarre, it changes the way we perceive those beloved after school television characters many of us [...]
Expressing Art for Healing
Whenever art and therapy are mentioned within the same sentence, connections to ambiguous inkblots and your mother tend to come to mind. However, aside from psychoanalyzing blobs of spilled ink over white paper, why not bring out your inner Picasso to help cure the woes of your grief?
In recent years, therapy research has shifted gears [...]
‘Brand New Kid’ Teaches Timeless Lesson
On Oct. 26, the Irvine Barclay Theatre opened its doors for a rush of pitter-pattering of little feet. Unlike its usual attending theater rats and social elites, this particular gang came from areas as far as Sesame Street or as close as Mr. Roger’s neighborhood.
In fact, most of them couldn’t drive or even see over [...]
