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Don’t Knock Something Until You’ve Tried It With an Open Mind

OK, I'll admit it. From time to time, I'll stop my radio dial at 94.7 The Wave, that oft-derided Southern California radio station that was a pioneer in popularizing smooth jazz at the end of the 1980s.

UCI MFA Students Debut Their Work

Five studio art graduate students going for their MFA, two rooms displaying their work and one exhibition rich in diverse ideas equals some interesting art.

‘Boxer’ Wrestles With Transvestism

Biologically speaking, sexuality is an easy concept to grasp. Whether you learned about it through a high school sex education video, your parents or childhood experiences, the gender differences between men and women are universally understood.

One Flawed but Musical ‘Day’

One torture technique we have learned from television is to only give the tortured person just enough nutrients to survive, allowing them to pass through an empty period of decreasing health until a few more nutrients are provided.

Ghostface at the Bren

Hip Hop Congress in collaboration with the Associated Students of UC Irvine brought some hip-hop culture to the Bren Events Center on Friday, May 19 by hosting a Ghostface Killah concert, featuring One Be Lo, Trek Life, Supernatural and a B-Boy exhibition

Stop Worrying About ‘The Da Vinci Code’ and Start Worshiping Stev

Allow me to preface some things before I talk about one of the biggest entertainment stories of this year, 'The Da Vinci Code.' I am a reluctant atheist with little to no religious upbringing. My mom is a Christian, basically, and my stepfather is a Jew.

Gay Orthodox Jews ‘Trembling’

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center, Anteaters for Israel, Jewish Student Union and Hillel co-sponsored a screening of the controversial documentary 'Trembling Before G-d' on May 17 in Humanities Instructional Building 110, allowin

xZOTica Exposes UCI Undergraduate Film Talent

Something different was going on outside of Social Science Lecture Hall on Friday that had men in black waving their samurai swords and school girls dancing to quick surf rock rhythms. It wasn't a Japanese takeover of the yellow-bricked venue, but somethi

Technologically Influenced Umweltforshow at Beall Center

The Arts Computation Engineering program at UC Irvine brought the creative forces behind art, computer science and engineering together in a unique graduate student presentation entitled Umweltforshow.

A ‘Companion’ From Altman

There is a lot of highbrow boomer-generation nonsense out there for which I have no patience and generally no interest, let alone praise. The New Yorker cartoons are up there on that list.

Young’s Latest Is a Heart of Tarnished Gold

Neil Young, with his unmistakable voice and melodic lyrics, has been a constant staple in American music. But his latest album, 'Living With War,' which is wrought with controversy because of its strong political statements, seems to be more of a gimmick

E3

Nintendo's Wii dominated the show floor. In fact, the success of the Wii was so great that neither I nor my fellow correspondent were able to physically try any of the games.

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