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Dance Visions: UCI Dance Department’s Finest Faculty Showcase

By Julia Clausen The house of the Irvine Barclay Theater was packed last Thursday, Feb. 23, for opening night of Dance Visions, the UCI...

Action Movie Revival: Keanu Reeves Returns as John Wick

By Hubert Ta As John Wick (Keanu Reeves) flees down a tunnel in the catacombs of Rome, he alternates between a pistol, an assault...

“The Man Who Killed the Cure” To Save the Sickness Industry

Last Saturday at the Robert Cohen Theatre, award-winning playwright Luke Yankee’s “The Man Who Killed the Cure” enjoyed its grand premier to the...

Live Life Better Dead on the Santa Clarita Diet

By Emily Santiago-Molina Every family has its ups and downs. Living in a typical suburban neighborhood of Santa Clarita, California, the Hammonds of the...

Fifty Shades: Lovers Work Out Kinks in Subpar Romance

By Lilly Ball Sex sells. So why can’t Hollywood get it right? “Fifty Shades Darker,” the latest installment of the “Fifty  Shades” film trilogy,...

“Lego Batman” Is the Animated Film We Need, and the Batman Film We Deserve

By Jason Cueto From the opening title sequence of “Lego Batman” we get a voice-over narration from the Caped Crusader (brilliantly voiced by Will...

ICYMI: Grammys 2017

Sunday night’s 59th annual Grammys awards ceremony packed more of a show than most of us were expecting. Here are some of the...

Moving Without Limits: Gaga’s Modern Dance Style

by Julia Clausen The new documentary “Mr. Gaga” by Israeli film directors Tomer and Barak Heymann tells the story of one of the most...

Comedy’s Powerful, Political Punch

By Yanit Mehta Jokes are remarkably potent tools for sending messages; some strike a nerve or cause hysterical laughter, yet others mock the sociopolitical...

Fiction and Fact: “1984”’s Resonance

Picture a world in which life is governed by an all-knowing, unseen authority. They control the news, education and even speech and thought....

Why You Should Be Concerned About the K-Pop Craze

by Ashley Duong Since our generation's novelty song, “Gangnam Style,” dropped, K-pop has very quickly ascended into the ranks of American pop culture. Flocks...

Music’s Biggest Bore: The Super Bowl Halftime Show

If you don’t like football, then you at least like the halftime performance. And if you do like football, then it’s when everyone...

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