Norah Jones adds diverse instrumentation in her fourth album to make it a delicately beautiful purchase for the holidays. Although Jones doesn’t make any especially dramatic changes to her soft jazz music in her newest album, “The Fall,” the electric guitar buzzes and upbeat drums contribute a passionate energy, which[Read More…]
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Requiem and Other Dances: ballet at The Beach
Cal State Long Beach presents “Requiem and Other Dances” choreographed by a well-known teacher from Julliard. The program’s mission is to unite different cultures. Alongside one of the dance department’s professors, Susan McLain, Jacqulyn Buglisi will present her 2001 choreographic work in ballet. Buglisi and McLain worked together with the[Read More…]
Conflicts with holy war in paperback
“The Book of Walla,” written by M. Ram Krishn, takes place in the fictional city of Tazbul, where religious conflict is rampant. The book seeks to bring a deeper understanding to the strife between religions. In a time when religious tension and holy wars are part of our daily news[Read More…]
Greek drama updated with modern comedy
Sex, love and murder filled the hazy air during Cal State Long Beach’s Greek play, “Songs of the Siren: The Greeks Remixed” which was confusing at first, but left the audience laughing hysterically. “Songs of the Siren” consists of a series of seven individual Greek myths that are remixed with[Read More…]
Amazing performances with ‘broken’ subplots
“Broken Embraces” marks the fourth collaboration between Oscar winners Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar. The magic these two bring to the big screen has yet to wear out. Although not completely ruined by its subplots, “Broken Embraces” is a forgettable, yet good film. A film based on films, “Broken Embraces”[Read More…]
Printmaking finds another dimension
Gretchen Merideth Jankowski, 31, is a printmaking major. The opening reception of her master’s of fine arts exhibition was in the Gatov Gallery in the Art Department Student Galleries last Sunday. In the Gatov Gallery, the visitor faces a wall of two-dimensional prints on fabric in different colors and textiles[Read More…]
Family secrets, intense fights in ‘Festen’
California Repertory Company opened its new season Friday at the Queen Mary with David Eldridge’s “Festen”—where the audience laughed and cried at the same time.Eldridge based “Festen” on the film “The Celebration,” a Cannes Film Festival favorite. Joanne Gordon, theater arts department chair at Cal State Long Beach and artistic[Read More…]
Blink is back
IRVINE — Excitement and the smell of fresh kettle corn filled the air Sept. 17 as fans piled through the gates of the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre for an event four years in the making: the reunion of Blink-182. A curtain hid the stage as the audience eagerly chanted the band’s[Read More…]
Fine arts ‘mastered’ by greater LA students
The walls of every other classroom at Cal State Long Beach stood lifeless in comparison to the creatively sketched, paint-smeared walls of the fine arts department. At the fifth annual Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts exhibition and Open Studios event, graduate students from the 13 schools displayed their[Read More…]
Monkeys raise art punk to new level
Arctic Monkeys’ third album is an amazing, surreal punk rock collection that’s out of this world. Although British disco punk bands such as Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party have faltered on its third record, Arctic Monkeys from Sheffield, England, have only grown more engaging with its third album, “Humbug.” Rather[Read More…]