Hubert Ta

California’s Water: A Look Back in Time

In the fourth year of California’s current drought, the absence of water has clearly affected our state, evident by the dead grass of front...

Flips, Kicks and a Tower of Tricks: Formosa Circus Art’s “Taiwan: The Heart of Asia”

Last Tuesday night, as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Irvine Barclay Theatre hosted Formosa Circus Art, who performed “Taiwan: The Heart...

An Enemy of the People: An Eerie Parallel

The Little Theatre’s small and intimate stage resonated with a feeling of old Americana, reinforced by the constant hum of rustic country and folk...

Art, Time, Memory and Passion: Musings from UCI’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

Usually, whenever I come to UCI on a Saturday it’s awfully quiet and disconcerting. This wasn’t the case at the bustling 2016 MFA Exhibition,...

Surface Tension: Abstract Sight and Sound

Chasing a small, brief respite from my end-of-the-quarter burdens, I traveled to Winifred Smith Hall last Thursday night for Surface Tension, an aesthetic concert...

What Ever Happened to Claire Trevor’s Drop Pin Tour?

In my three years at UCI, I have been over to the Claire Trevor School of the Arts a total of four times: once...

Soulstice Searching: Uniting Voices

With Soulstice only a few days away, the anticipation for UCI’s annual talent extravaganza is reaching new heights. This week, as part of our...

One Day in September, 28 Years Apart

Last Thursday evening, the McCormick Screening Room in Humanities Gateway was quiet and empty save for a couple of students. Just after my arrival,...

Gods and Their Machines

If something is cut, and it bleeds, is it alive? “Ex Machina” asks us exactly what it means to be human and confronts us...

Angry ‘Backstrom’ in Portland

“You were demoted for catching a mass murderer?” “That, and at the press conference, I sang, one little, two little, three little Indi-“ With that, we...

‘Taken’ With the End of the Trilogy

Liam Neeson is back as Bryan Mills, a CIA agent using his experience to solve a murder conspiracy. With Detective Frank Dotzler (Forest Whitaker)...

Check in with ‘The Librarians’ on Sundays

In a time where shows like “The Walking Dead,” “The Good Wife” and many more present serious overtures about the human condition are shown...

Let TNT’s ‘Transporter’ Take You on a Wild Ride

I love action films and all the craziness that happens in them. The days of John McClane (“Die Hard”) waltzing around Nakatomi Plaza and...

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