Another stereotypical teenage movie — this time a coming-of-age tale about a girl from a small Texas town who is misunderstood with her emo-like style, her affinity for 80’s Christian metal bands and her forced participation in debutante beauty pageants. Throw in some roller skates, a rink and a few elbows and you have “Whip It.” Drew [...]…
Read moreThe members of Paramore almost didn’t make it to their third album. In 2008, they cancelled their European tour due to internal band issues, and recording sessions in their hometown of Franklin, Tenn. were not going smoothly. Luckily for us, Paramore headed out to Calabasas, Calif. to work with producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day), and the [...]…
Read moreThe selection process for the annual season of productions in the theatre department is not a simple pick-and-choose. After sifting through dozens of suggestions and requests comes more tedious work: gaining rights to the productions in question, selecting a dynamic and versatile repertoire, and factoring in the ever-decreasing funding. The theatre department at CSUN receives over [...]…
Read moreRyden Malby (Alexis Bledel) had a plan: study hard, get a college scholarship, avoid the party scene, graduate and get a job at Happerman and Browning. Everything seemed to be going pretty well until she found out that she’d lost the job that she had always dreamed of to her archenemy [...]…
Read moreHe made his claim to fame when joining the emo-rock group Evanescence before starting his own band, Trading Yesterday, but singer-songwriter David Hodges has spent the last several years writing music for other bands. Hodges has penned songs for the likes of American Idol’s Kelly Clarkson and David Cook, three-time Teen Choice Awards winner [...]…
Read moreLeilani Silva, a CSUN business major, received a one of a kind birthday present when her raffle ticket was selected out of the glass jar during a CSUN Public Art Club event on Sept. 16. An original graffiti artwork by Man One was the perfect 19th birthday surprise for Silva, who is a self- admitted “art [...]…
Read moreThe Getty Villa presents Peace, but not as one might expect. Culture Clash is a Chicano/ Latino sketch comedy troupe, which was founded in San Francisco in 1984. This is probably one of the last theater companies one would expect to be performing a classic Greek play; or is it? Peace is a comedy by [...]…
Read moreFate of a Cockroach”, Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s dark satire directed by Ken Sawyer, opened this past weekend to what was, no doubt, a warm reception. The title of the play arouses many questions. What is a cockroach’s fate? Who cares? However, when the lights went down on the CSUN production, the audience started to see a [...]…
Read moreThe film “9” is the story of nine puppets given the soul of a scientist to help defeat the evil that ended our world as we know it. The film has the action of “Terminator,” but instead of robots there’s dolls. The expressions they all give evoke the same sense as “Wall-E” in that they appear [...]…
Read moreWhen I first heard We Shot The Moon’s new CD, “A Silver Lining”, I wasn’t too impressed. They sounded like All American Rejects meets Something Corporate meets The Starting Line meets The Academy Is. It sounded familiar in an ‘I’ve heard this before’ kind of way. Even though the CD was only OK, I decided [...]…
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