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Sofia Coppola’s Rise from Teenage Dream To Screen Queen

By Lilly Ball In 2004, Sofia Coppola, fresh off the set of her Academy Award-nominated film “Lost in Translation,” was interviewed by David Letterman....

UCI Drama’s “Avenue Q” Puts Adulthood to Music, Comedy, and Puppets

By Hubert Ta I don’t remember much about “Sesame Street,” but I can recall the basic concept: to tell stories and life lessons that...

“Wonder Woman’s” Female-Led Box Office Phenom

By Julia Clausen After a 10-year barrage of Marvel superhero movies, the world finally has its first major female hero origin story with the...

The Act of Radical Self-Acceptance is Shameless Self-Expression

By Yanit Mehta Campus spoken word club, Uncultivated Rabbits, held their annual event called Express URself in the Crystal Cove Auditorium last Friday to...

Romphims: Fragile Masculinity’s Latest Stab at Relevance

By Dina Bdaiwi The RompHim: the original romper with a “twist”… made for men! In the past, the romper has been viewed as a...

Close Encounters with Mankind: Aliens as the Other and Ourselves

By Jason Cueto In cinema, the archetype of the alien holds many meanings: from a scientific perspective, it elicits the possibility of life existing...

Stuck in Line For Bummerlands

By Caitlin Antonios For those with the foresight to skip UCI’s 2017 Summerlands festival, here’s what you missed: one of the main headliners cancelling,...

Handmade for Television: Finding Resonance in Hulu’s Dystopic Drama

By Ashley Duong Hulu’s newest original series, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” takes on the task of converting Margaret Atwood’s quiet dystopian novel into a drama-filled...

Lukas Ligeti’s Marimba Lives Between Many Melodies

By Lilly Ball In one of the most interesting concerts that UCI’S Winifred Smith Hall has ever hosted, Lukas Ligeti’s “Between Many World’s” amazed...

Don’t Overthink It: Learning to Laugh at the Coup de Comedy

  Improv Revolution’s (iRev) Coup de Comedy Festival, their annual four-day fête for all things funny and improvised, delivered the usual itinerary of not-so...

“Dear White People” Opens a Conversation about Race with Humor and Nuance

  “Dear White People,” the title of Justin Simien’s 10-part Netflix show based on his 2014 film of the same name, has unapologetically garnered...

“Sense8’s” Despite Best Intentions, is America-centric

By Julia Clausen The Wachowskis are once again turning heads with the release of the second season of their widely popular, but also highly...

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