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Anticipating the upcoming week, actress Morgan Kirner, currently portraying the role of Ermengarde, sat down to talk about her background in musical theater as well as the “Hello, Dolly!” tour in Costa Mesa.

In a year that saw the premature deaths of Mac Miller and XXXTENTACION, the faltering of gate-keeping artists like Kanye West, and the proliferation of drugged-out, teenage depression raps reaching even greater heights, Cole’s “K.O.D” struck the hip-hop scene with an impartial, mature, and sober clarity.

Overall, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a film that takes risks and succeeds in giving audiences a compelling story with enthralling characters, while effectively doling out Spider-Man’s greatest moral: anyone can be a hero.

As the world we occupy manages to keep deteriorating into morbidity, music seems to be following the same trend, growing more grim and serious. However, in this world of grime on Dec. 7, the Michigan funk quartet Vulfpeck broke through the darkness with their highly anticipated eighth studio album, “Hill Climber”. The album features the group’s original four members Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Joe Dart, and Woody Goss along with brilliant regulars in Joey Dosik, Cory Wong and Antwaun Stanley. The band also continues its newfound tradition of featuring other talents like Louis Cole, Monica Martin, and Mike Viola to present some modern minimalist funk.

Christmas is a wonderful time of year filled with tasty baked goods, cute colorful decorations, family get-togethers, and corny over-the-top Netflix movies.

Besides the fantastic music, it was awesome to watch passionate people envelop themselves in their art. The ensembles all clearly had fun. Even if they hadn’t performed as well as they did, isn’t that all that matters?

UCI a cappella group Vermillion Vocalists' Fall Showcase boasted talented new members, classic holiday music, and spectacular, debut competition tracks. Listen to all the highlights of the evening and hear from VeVo members about the show and what's in store for 2019

It comes as no surprise that a song that climbed to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 and broke single-day streaming records on Spotify would also receive hype for its music video.

A flock of approximately 40 people filtered into HIB 1030 on Nov. 28 for New Forum’s Fall Release Party.

UCI dance major Hannahlei Cabanilla, an 18-year-old American-Filipina dancer, recently won season 15 of the reality television show So You Think You Can Dance.

Joji, born George Miller, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, and former YouTube star whose debut album “Ballads 1” hit the #1 spot on the Billboard Hip hop/R&B chart, making him the first Asian-born artist to do so.

One of the most influential artists in the world, Ariana Grande, dropped the single “thank u, next” without warning on Saturday, Nov.3.