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If there’s anything impressive about The 88, a Los Angeles-based pop-rock band, it’s the fact that their third album—“Not Only…But Also”—was financed on the licensing of their music to film and TV. From “The OC” to the new (re: awful) “90210,” the band’s already made their name just being the background music for ‘tween [...]
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Harper Joy Theatre’s upcoming play “The Shadow” had its beginnings as a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Anderson in 1847. Jewish author Yevgheny Shvarts, living in Soviet Russia, politicized the content of Anderson’s tale and turned it into a full length play in 1940. In a climate of political repression, Shvarts’ play balanced classic [...]
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The minutes after the last performance of Whitman Dance Theater’s “TREE-SPEAK” were over-the-top.
Dancers in fairy-like costumes and street clothes lavished one another with hugs.
A few proud parents showed up with the requisite bunches of flowers and friends snapped picture after picture of the dancers in their colorful clown-meets-prostitute stage make up.
The photos, flowers and hugs [...]
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Six records that I failed to cover in 500 words or less:
Beach House – Devotion (Carpark)
I didn’t much care for Beach House’s self-titled debut. I couldn’t find anything worth digging into in their songs, and I couldn’t find something that made them more compelling than oft-compared-to Mazzy Star and Galaxie 500. “Devotion,” however, won me [...]
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This year, instead of throwing their familiar release parties, Quarterlife is holding open mic nights to celebrate the issuing of their publication.
Though the release parties were popular and widely successful, the Quarterlife staff decided to go in a different direction after Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) changed the student group alcohol policy to discourage [...]
