You won’t want to be sitting on your couch dumbfounded come March 7, 2010 when this picture steals the Academy Awards and you missed it.
See it, if you get the chance. Horror films like this one, with this much love and attention to detail, don’t come around that often.
“I grew up here 30 years ago,” he said. “My girlfriend, Rose, lived over that way…When they said, ‘hoy,’ they came out of the woods. They did her in first.”
The fragrance of rising bread and delicate pastries does not emanate from Hygge Bakery as it does from other establishments of this sort. Hygge has no need to resort to such aromatic pretexts.
With rust-colored leaves sprinkled on the streets and a festive nip in the air (plus a panoply of not-to-be-missed exhibitions), there’s no better time to fall in love with the City of L’Amour.
When the film ended, and the lights went up, a man in the row in front of me said, “That’s it? I want my money back.” My sentiments exactly. You feel cheated.
Step aside, sex slave trafficking. There’s a new breed of for-profit youth exploitation to hit the scene and it’s perfectly legal! That’s right: child-driven publicity stunts!
Entertaining? Sure! I laughed my face off. A timeless love story? Dear God in heaven, I hope not!
Stop whatever you're doing and go see this movie now! It's a sharp film. Certainly among their best.
"As a proud citizen of the New Orleans area for the last 11 years, I was rather disturbed..."
There is a pronounced line between shock and humor and this script stands safely on the former side. Avoid touching this one with a ten foot pole.
Before Obama’s 100 days were even up, Republicans came up with a new strategy: to band together and criticize President Obama’s every move.
I scored you a seat next to me as I dine on Katsuya’s Tasting Menu—a generous 5-course sampling of the best this restaurant has to offer.
“When I go to India I am a foreigner, and when I am over here I am an immigrant. The fact that I grew up in England and I have been here for 17 years [makes it] a case of not really having your own place.”
Whether it was the obsoleteness of the kick-scooter or my face of absolute terror as I ran into their doors I’ll never know, but one thing was certain - the scooter is not normally considered cool.
See, eTextbooks are a lot like print textbooks, but kind of superior in every way.
Automobiles, baseball and boy bands: not too bad. Sweatshops, pollution and genetically modified foods? We would be so grounded.
In New Orleans, the passage of 1,461 days has made little to no difference for many areas. Houses are still in ruins from flooding...standing as empty buildings that represent lives that will never be the same.
This fourth issue marks a memorable milestone as the co-founders step aside to let a new crop of leaders fulfill their visions with this special issue.
Welcome to the 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational.
By the dawn of 2010, you will probably never see a film again—at least, not in the strictest sense.
This is horrific! It looks like Skid Row out there!
Even though it was meant to strengthen a part of our bodies we hadn’t dealt with since our 9th grade biology class, it couldn’t hurt us, right? We would never know.
After that first class, I frantically ran around, grabbing people, shaking them, “HAVE YOU TAKEN WRITING 140??? HOW BAD WAS IT?? HELP ME!!”
We’re taught the illusion that good writing is universal. WRIT-340 dismantles that illusion.
With a vision of Downtown as a place to take a leisurely stroll, the creators constructed a “Times Square of the West.”
This might not come as a surprise to the student body of the University of Southern California, but it seems that we have our very own actor in the gay adult entertainment industry.
Come to “Spanish Music and Culture Fighting against Cancer” at Bovard Auditorium on Saturday, May 3rd at 6:30pm for the free concert!
“We’re all such good musicians. Why don’t we unite over our love of music?”
Trying to navigate my way through a sea of students, whilst balancing? No thank you!
Between talks of New Orleans gumbo, Rawls’s theory of relative morality and childhood anecdotes, Drayton offers his thoughts on leadership gathered from a career in law enforcement.
Every Friday night, I head to South Los Angeles and meet with my favorite accomplices: the women of Women’s Creative Collective for Change (WCC).
Films like Persepolis and Paradise Now—both recently screened at USC—are Iran and Palestine’s answer to Hollywoodian stereotypes of the region.
STARBUCKS, 38, a twin-tailed siren with a starry crown on her wavy black and white hair, slithers behind a table on the campus walkway.
But then it hit me. The colorful lights, the booming audio, the crowds of people — how much did it all cost? Do these shows really connect a group of people with their culture?
Attention Business Students! With finance jobs down the tube, odd jobs are receiving some more credibility—and an influx of job applicants.
Fast & Furious (2009) rounded out its opening weekend with a gross of $72.5M—the biggest opening of 2009 thus far.
I deleted my Facebook account back in December. I’m not exactly sure why I did it, probably to test out my endurance.
It didn’t really matter if it was only a Wednesday night, if Gary was under 21, if our dance moves could be mistaken for muscular spasms, or if we didn’t drink... right? Wrong.
All week I have been eating leaves and I must admit, I feel like one of those preachy health fanatics whose idea of fun is downing shots of wheatgrass juice on Friday nights.
Jazz in the Park, happening everyday from 12-1pm this week at Alumni Park, features our very own Thornton School of Music students.
Unless you already knew it was there, you would never suspect that a kaleidoscope of color and flavor was nestled onto a side street off Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood every Sunday morning.
Williams Sonoma. Nordstrom. Crate & Barrel. Abercrombie and Fitch. This was San Francisco’s Union Square, a spot we had been told was a must see.
Stephen King recently said that Stephenie Meyer “can’t write worth a darn.” This statement caused an uproar among Twilight lovers who came to Meyer’s defense via the Internet.
Verdict: RENT it on DVD. And that’s only if you absolutely love this kind of film.
At 4 a.m. we were to commence enforcing passive-aggressive, international policies of note-taking nonintervention. I’m fine, I contemplated on the toilet, you have bowels of steel.
See it, if you get the chance. Horror films like this one, with this much love and attention to detail, don’t come around that often.
Paranormal Activity (2009) has been slaughtering--pardon the verb--the box office lately! Granted, This Is It (2009) won last weekend, but that’s not being reviewed because that’s not a real film. According to Box Office Mojo, Paranormal Activity, which only cost $15,000 to make, has raked in upwards of $80M domestically--a big win for Paramount. I’ve already made my opinion of the film clear, but regardless, that’s the horror film Halloweeners chose to see this weekend...which is unfortunate, but this is the film they should have seen.
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“I grew up here 30 years ago,” he said. “My girlfriend, Rose, lived over that way…When they said, ‘hoy,’ they came out of the woods. They did her in first.”
Los Angeles is a scary city. Angelenos and visitors have a smorgasbord of neighborhoods to choose from in which stereotypes and reality collectively instill the fear of physical endangerment. Finding a place that plays on the mind’s more irrational fears, however, seems much less doable. Of course, there are the annual Halloween iterations of local theme parks, but less contrived and expensive experiences exist few and far between. Being the cheapskate I am, though, I said to hell with paying for actors and décor to spook me, did a little research, and embarked on a mini-tour of creepy LA locales that require no entry fee.
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The fragrance of rising bread and delicate pastries does not emanate from Hygge Bakery as it does from other establishments of this sort. Hygge has no need to resort to such aromatic pretexts.
The fragrance of rising bread and delicate pastries does not emanate from Hygge Bakery as it does from other establishments of this sort. Hygge (that’s hoo-geh) has no need to resort to such aromatic pretexts.
The clean, modern lines and high ceiling inside Hygge may assimilate it inconspicuously with the sleek residential towers in South Park.
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With rust-colored leaves sprinkled on the streets and a festive nip in the air (plus a panoply of not-to-be-missed exhibitions), there’s no better time to fall in love with the City of L’Amour.
The dust has settled. The swarms of stiletto-clad individuals have vacated Paris as quickly as they came. It’s back to ballet flats and quotidian black-and-white reserve on the Parisian metro. And yet, the Carrousel du Louvre seemed just a tad too empty last week without the recent mass of fashionistas in perpetual mid-Tweet. Their frenzy and undeniable ferocity seemed so out of context in Parisian two-hour café society.
Needless to say, I was inspired: why not imagine a completely different way to relive the collections, sans Style.com (as comprehensive as it is)? The ticket, if I may, comes courtesy of the RATP (Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens): an 8.80 euro metro day pass. Consider the spring-summer 2010 shows as your unexpected, impeccably packaged program for rediscovering Paris in all its glory; with rust-colored leaves sprinkled on the streets and a festive nip in the air (plus a panoply of not-to-be-missed exhibitions), there’s no better time to fall in love with the City of L’Amour.
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