Author: Pedro Salinas

Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera proudly and firmly asserts its bleak view of existence throughout its three acts, outright rejecting the notion that people are essentially good. Its principles are either at the margins of society, or act like they ought to be. “Even saintly folks may

I’ll come right out and say it: Flappers isn’t “cool”… yet. It is a comedy club (strike one, arguably) with clichéd 1980s comedy boom-themed décor and an inexplicably 1920s-themed name (strike two), it doesn’t have a liquor license (strike three) or a kitchen (strike four), and it is situated in

Improv is hard. Think if you’ve ever genuinely amused anyone who told you to “say something funny.” Well, improv is a group of people being told to “act something funny” about a random topic that they don’t even get to choose. This is why people take classes. It’s a constant

Rating: 2.5/5 Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu—the well-known Mexican director of such films as Amores Perros, 21 Grams, and Babel—doesn’t stray too far from his recognizable pattern of dour emotional intensity with his new film, Biutiful. Javier Bardem stars as Uxbal, a black market middleman between Chinese manufacturers and Senegalese street vendors

Move over, Paris, you useless, sniveling, chain-smoking, disdainful bunch of pencil-mustached aesthetes: Claremont is officially the most romantic city in the world. According to a press release that the City of Claremont posted on PRNewswire.com, our very own “lush, European village-like” Claremont promises to be a “very inviting” choice for

You’re watching the final episode of Freaks and Geeks, the Judd Apatow-produced television series that began airing on NBC in Sept. 1999 and was cancelled by the end of March 2000. As it ends on a gorgeously melancholy note—I won’t spoil what actually happens—and the scene fades to black to

The statement “You can talk to anybody on the Internet” carries with it two distinct connotations. The Internet age has brought about—along with countless other positive changes—an unprecedented ease of communication, allowing families and friends to maintain bonds across the planet just for the price of a monthly Internet connection.