Arts & Entertainment
Arts & Entertainment
Oxy Wanlass Artist in Residence Roksana Pirouzmand experiments with medium, space and sound
The theme for this semester's Studio Arts course Art Outside the Bounds is "Everything was once something else.” Instructor Roksana Pirouzmand said she was inspired by...
Arts & Entertainment
UEPI Native Garden incorporates alternative landscaping and native plant restoration
The Urban and Environmental Policy Institute (UEPI) located at 1541 Campus Road recently replaced its grass lawn with a new garden holding plants native to...
Arts & Entertainment
Aleem Hossain’s ‘Weird Short Films’ inspires discussion about technology and the future of filmmaking
Media Arts & Culture (MAC) Professor Aleem Hossain showcased “Three Weird Short Films” Feb. 6 to students, professors and Occidental community members at Choi Auditorium. A Q&A...
2012
Local Rivera dishes art-inspired cuisine
Author: Natania Reed, Senior Writer Rivera, a restaurant located in downtown Los Angeles, has joined forces with the Pacific Standard Time art initiative to create the...
2012
Heavy guitars, mosh pit dominate FIDLAR show
Author: Los Angeles-based garage band FIDLAR, short for Fuck It Dog, Life's A Risk, brought their distinctive anthemic rock sound to Sycamore Glen this past...
2012
Leap day folk concert brings obscure musical genre to life
Author: Nicolette Gendron Often overlooked, the heterogeneous genre of folk music must be experienced firsthand in a setting removed from mainstream society and with live artists,...
2012
LACMA’s ‘Standard’ showcases L.A. artist’s influence
Author: Damian Mendieta Gleaming under beams of light and handsomely contrasted against a spacious white backwall, Ed Ruscha’s work, spanning various mediums, provokes inquisitiveness and astonishment for all...
2012
Classiest-in-Chief
Author: Ben Tuthill By the time you're reading this, America will have elected our next president. Today marks the symbolic start of a new era of...
2012
Menswear: A Year in Review
Author: Ben Tuthill 2012 was menswear’s coming out year. I don’t mean that like coming out of the closet – though I sort of do (see...
2013
‘Gravity’ takes NASA out of space and onto the screen
Author: Will Westwater "At 372 miles above the Earth there is nothing to carry sound, no air pressure, no oxygen. Life in space is impossible." Space...
2013
Production of ‘The Thugs’ suffers from static performances
Author: Jeremy Childs Adam Bock’s play “The Thugs" ran its course on the stage of Keck Theater this past weekend, exploring the characters' panic after they...
