(Originally published in LA STAGE Times) Bring your kids to the 2012 Ovation Awards – they’ve finally got something to root for. A producer of family-oriented fare, MainStreet Theatre Company has been nominated for four Ovation Awards. The company, funded and run through the city of Rancho Cucamonga at Lewis Family Playhouse, received four nominations in the large-theater categories. […]
(Originally published in LA STAGE Times) What do you get when a screenwriter, a teacher and a deputy district attorney get together to write songs inspired by their upbringings as upper-middle-class Los Angeles Jews? In the case of Matthew Fogel, Isaac Laskin and David Richman, you get Hey, Morgan!. The premiere of the hour-long comedy rock musical, […]
(Originally published by Stanford News Service) Undergraduate resident advisers (RAs) for the 2012-13 school year will start thinking like RAs sooner than ever before, thanks to an RA course that will launch next spring and inaugurate a new system of RA hiring and training. The change comes after extensive research and discussion conducted by Residential […]
When promos started airing in 2008 for a new show called Glee, about the so-called misfits that made up a high school glee club, I rolled my eyes. It looked silly, a little too earnest, and “Don’t Stop Believin’” has never been one of my favorite songs. I didn’t watch and tried to ignore the growing […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) If you want to be a big shot someday, you’ve got to start at the bottom. That’s the mentality every college student or recent graduate who dreams of working in Hollywood needs to adopt when deciding what the heck they’re going to do about that dream job. Whether you […]
As I sat with the biggest grin I’ve ever had plastered on my face watching Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise recreate their characters from 21 Jump Street for five precious minutes in the 2012 21 Jump Street movie, only one coherent thought went through my head: Why the hell do I love that show so much? For the uninitiated, 21 […]
(Yeah, okay, I probably should have done this back in January. But honestly, the only movie I would have added to this list that has already opened is 21 Jump Street) Dark Shadows (May 11). Johnny Depp and Tim Burton and vampires, oh my! I’ll admit I was mildly horrified when I first heard that […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) Inception, The Social Network, Black Swan, Toy Story 3 – even if you’ve only seen a couple of the films nominated at this Sunday’s Academy Awards, you have to admit 2010 was a pretty kick-ass year for cinema. Take it from the cinephile who saw all 10 Best Picture […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) The most notorious person in film studies right now is a guy named Mike Lacher. He’s the brains behind the Film School Thesis Generator, a clever little tool (go to wonder-tonic.com/filmthesis) that aspires to capture the entire undergraduate experience of film studies in a few keystrokes. Simply enter any […]
Rayna James, the middle-aged country superstar at the heart of ABC’s Nashville, is told by one of her managers in the pilot episode that she “needs to find her place in a new market.” Nashville creator/writer Callie Khouri would do well to follow her own advice. Nashville’s premise is tantalizingly rich – Glee or Smash […]
Robin Migdol 