Author Archive for Rebecca Aranda
REBECCA’S FINAL FINITE PLAYLIST
FINISHED: A cool graduation mix to help sustain your cap’d and gown’d strut through the Bren Events Center.
Rebecca Says Goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey all, Rebecca here. As of this week, I will be no longer working for the New University. No, it’s not because of the Soundgarden debacle. It’s not because I’m gay as hell. It’s not because of my wild, irreverent attitude.
No, it’s none of those things! It’s because I’m graduating. So now I leave, [...]
‘Hamlet’: Less Matter With More Art
Shakespeare: Victor Vazquez tackles one of the big ones for his undergraduate Honors in Directing thesis.
YouTube
The oldest video on Youtube was uploaded five years ago. It is called: “me at the zoo.” It shows, simply, one of the founders of Youtube at the zoo. “Here we are, in front of the elephants,” a young(er) Jawed Karim says, and that’s about it. It has been watched over a million times.
And that’s [...]
Nat & Becca’s Finite Playlist: Our Favorite Concert Songs
Live music: The entertainment section editors compile some of their best concert and festival moments.
Soundgarden
Today’s music has very little substance. With a musical landscape dominated by theatrics and autotune, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when a more pure form of music rode the airwaves: the mainstream music of the 1990s.
This was a time when pop was at its most earnest, rock was at its most [...]
Songs for Spring Break
FINITE PLAYLIST: The Entertainment editors give a few recommendations to load up your iPod.
Acrobatics Everyday!
It’s tough being a student in Irvine. The schoolwork is fine, but there’s nothing to do in this town! If only we lived in a hipper place – we could go see a concert this weekend, or even during the week. We could drive to Los Angeles, or maybe San Diego … but man, I [...]
Ground Control
This is “A Guide.
to find out who you
really are
deep
deep
deep
down inside.”
Typewritten letters catch your eye, crudely photocopied across the front of a booklet. Its many pages are multicolored. Inside, you will find that this is a “document of documentation” – forms, photographs, precise words peppered across every page.
It is not hanging on the wall. It is [...]
China, Khan, Babel and ‘Bahok’
DANCE: Akhram Khan constructs a fresh new movement piece, blending mediums and styles to tell his story.
