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Finding the Right USC Campus Job by elisa hernandez Now that school is officially underway, students have a lot to look forward to this semester. With football season days away tailgating is on everyone’s mind … that and campus parties and festivities. But for some students who didn’t get their football tickets in time, standing in the ticket line might be the least of their problems.

The one thing that can put a damper on fall fun is lack of funds. Having a campus job is a must for most of the student body. Some students can qualify for work-study while others need a consistent check coming in. Not to fear though, USC has plenty of places on campus that are hiring both workstudy students and non work-study students.

If you missed the work-study job fair and are still looking for a job, not to worry. The library is hiring work-study students; one position they have available is to be a security guard. One can go to usc.edu/libraries/jobs/students to apply and submit a resume. It’s a good position, obviously very quiet. Scheduling hours are pretty easy: They give you a blank slate every week so you can fill in your availability. They are pretty flexible and understand that in the student life you can’t always predict your life week by week. So you make your own hours and make money on the time that you have free.

Another place that is hiring is Trojan Grounds/Ground

Campus Circle > Blogs > Trojan Sidelines Zero. They’re hiring for a few positions including: ushering for events, public relations, receptionist for scheduling and more. I actually applied there, and it seemed like a very good place to be. Its location is near the Alumni House behind Registration. It’s pretty secluded, but it’s very sociable once school gets started. Some bands perform there; there are good drinks being served and a place to hang out with your friends.

So, imagine working there? It’s a good way to meet people and become involved within campus itself.

If you want a job working directly with students, well, you can always apply to the USC Bookstore and/or Parkside. USC has jobs for everything, from giving tours to checking you out at the bookstore.

If you visit usc.edu and scroll down to jobs you can go ahead and apply online for multiple positions. You can do the same with applying to the Credit Union whose offices are above the Café 84. Make sure that you make a good first impression so that once you leave that job you can maintain those professional connections.

Depending on what your strengths are make sure you can apply them to your job, thus building up your resume. I personally applied to many on campus until I found a good fit. I worked at Annenberg for a while on the Web site and in public relations/student affairs. Through this job, I was able to work on my editing and writing skills and was able to cover various events on campus.

But this fall semester I am working with SCcallers. At SCcallers I will call alumni and ask them to donate money to the school. One of the main reasons why I took this job was because it helps me improve my people and customer service skills. Their location is at University Village across the street from USC. That’s another place where you can find jobs. There are plenty of USC-related stores there, as well as

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campusfood Offers Westwood Dining Options with UCLA Discounts by tien thuy ho Eating good meals might be the most important factor in adjusting to a new life in college. Good food entices our senses, fills our appetites and boosts our energy to study and learn. While each college provides a myriad of food choices and eating options, it never hurts to have just one more plan. The Web site campusfood.com aids students in ordering food from nearby restaurants online.

At UCLA, if you live in a dorm on-campus, then you have five different meal plan options: 11 cub, 14 regular, 14 premier, 19 regular and 19 premier. The premier plans allow you to swipe your Bruincard into a dinning hall or the cafés anytime you wish. You can even swipe your friends in too! Premier is indeed very useful and convenient, but it is also very costly. The regular plans limit your eating times to dining hall schedules and breakfast, lunch and dinner schedules. The 11 meals a week plan is a bit too little unless you plan on eating out often.

UCLA’s dining halls are Covel, De Neve, Rieber and Hedrick. These are buffet style and open and close according to a specific schedule for breakfast, lunch,and dinner. The dining halls have great food from every cuisine you can imagine: Covel specializes in pastas, De Neve has a great variety of foods, Hedrick has organic salads and sushi,

Ground Zero has great coffee drinks and you can watch bands perform while you work. clothing stores, grocery stores etc. where you can apply as well.

But one thing you have to remember is that you are a student first and an employee second. As important as it is to get your phone bill and your rent paid on time, going to class and getting good grades are most crucial. By doing that, you ensure that you won’t have a job the rest of your life, rather a career.

Campus life is full of surprises, and it does feel nice to have a little money in your pocket for parties, food and tailgating.

But in the words of my mother, “Money isn’t everything, and remember school comes first.” Now that may sound a little juvenile but someone did tell me that moms know best.

So now you have the information you need, use it wisely.

Campus Circle > Blogs > Spirited Bruin while Reiber is the newly remodeled dining hall. Other dorm options are Bruin Café, which is where you can eat sandwiches, wraps, salads and drink coffee and smoothies.

Another is Café 1919, where you can eat delicious paninis and pizzas and treat yourself to gelato or tiramisu. At Rendezvous, you have two cuisines, Mexican and Asian, where you can eat there or take-out. Rendezvous is open until midnight. Lastly, for when you are hungry late at night but your dorm is too far from Rendezvous, De Neve Late Night is open from 9 p.m.-midnight, providing hamburgers, hot dogs, fruit salads, pizzas and chicken nuggets along with milkshakes.

Although UCLA does offer many food options for students, there will be times when you will just want to try something else for a change. A convenient and inexpensive way is to order food from nearby restaurants in Westwood through Campusfood. Each student can go onto the Web site and sign up freely. Then simply click on the campus, and all the restaurants that are part of the Campusfood network will appear. Now all that is left to do is order food and wait for delivery.

Each week there will be special coupons from those restaurants too. Each student who uses Campusfood will earn points toward prizes. Fortunately, Campusfood is even offering a special deal to UCLA students: Students can purchase $20 worth of coupons for only $5 at campusfood. com! Your parents can purchase $100 worth of coupons for $75.

Campusfood has 28 restaurants near UCLA. If you like Thai food, there are Chilli Thai, Emporium Thai Cuisine (which is amazingly savory) and Westwood Thai Café. If you are craving Indian food, there are India’s Oven, Jaipur and Nizam of India. Also, you can order pizza from California

Campusfood.com offers great deals for Bruins at places like Westwood Thai Café.

Fresh Pizza, pasta from Lucia’s, sandwiches from Quizno’s and hot dogs from Hoagies & Wings. So whether you are looking for Chinese, Japanese or Italian food, Campusfood can help.

Campusfood is the broadest-reaching college food network. Nearly 400 campuses partake in Campusfood. By ordering breakfast, lunch and dinner online, Campusfood has become another “Meal Plan” option for students.

Moreover, students can order whatever food they want at any time! Students can eat their food wherever they are whether they are in their dorm room or on campus.

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A NEW LOOK AT THE USC/ UCLA DEBATE by denise guerra

There’s a battle raging between office cubicles. Massive warfare in signage and quick one-liners flows through the hallways between those of the proud yellow and blue, with that of the bloody red. Yes, UCLA vs. USC. It’s on...

The rivalry has penetrated my office space as half of my co-workers come from USC and the other half (proudly) come from UCLA. I know I have my biases, but UCLA is a pretty kick-ass school to go to, and it would be a waste of time of debate why ... it’s a given. But, before I get the blood boiling in anyone from USC, I wanted to take a look at our rivalry from another angle. Not football, basketball or who has a better campus, but through something a little bit more relevant to these seriously depressing economic ties.

What do I mean? I want to talk worth, a side-byside comparison based on basic research anyone can find through each school’s Web site. I’ll break it down to the cost of undergraduate tuition and admission rates for 2010 freshman. Of course, there’s a lot of nuances in comparison figures including those who received merit or need-based scholarships or whether the monetary figures are exact, but

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post-summer relationshiPS How to Avoid or Continue Them by victoria gu You both agreed that it wasn’t time for a committed relationship, so you decided to take a break over the summer. But with school starting again, now what?

What should you do with the relationship that was suspended hastily right before school started? Should you resume the relationship? But what to do if you just don’t feel the same way as when school was ending only a couple of months ago?

Whatever happened in summer, it is probably most likely that you feel differently about the relationship now than you did when school ended. Whether you changed your mind about how you feel about the person, or you simply have new goals and no longer have time to revisit the relationship, you should learn how to master the art of avoidance in order to reduce the awkwardness of any potential run-ins during the school year.

Diversify! Avoid loitering in places that person usually has the most classes in. If she is a business major, then hanging out in the business school building won’t exactly decrease your chance of encountering one another. Disappearing completely from someone’s life is not actually too difficult, unless you happen to be in the same major.

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Campus Circle > Blogs > D-Day I’m hoping the stats I found will help paint a picture of how two of Los Angeles’ most prominent world-class institutions rate in terms of accessibility.

The figures shown below are according to the 2010 freshman admissions profiles for both UCLA and USC (by the way these figures were based respectively from aim.ucla.edu/ enrollment and usc.edu/admission/undergraduate) Total Admitted – USC: 2,972; UCLA: 4,636 By race and ethnicity – USC: seven percent African American/Black, 13 percent Latino/Hispanic, two percent Native American/Pacific Islander, 25 percent Asian/Asian American, 42 percent Caucasian, 11 percent International (student visa holders); UCLA (approximate): 0.6 percent American Indian or Alaskan Native, four percent African American/Black, 38 percent Asian/Asian American, 16 percent Chicano/Latino, 29 percent White, six percent Foreign, five percent Unknown Average cost of attendance with room and board – USC: $55,578 (For 2011, this figure is now $57,876.); UCLA: $29,771 (For 2011, this figure is now $31,646.)

So what do these statistics really point to? For me, it provides a quick snapshot of who has been accepted to each university and the patterns that exist between in terms of who gets admitted based on race and ethnicity. Asians and Caucasians make up the majority of admitted freshman for both schools, but Caucasians were the most prominently admitted at USC versus UCLA. UCLA has a higher Hispanic and Asian population, while USC has a higher African American/Black population. Still, it’s hard to really derive anything precise with these stats since upon closer look, the way they group people together is kind of off. It confuses me why USC lumped Native Americans and Pacific Islanders together, and UCLA lumped all Asians together, and why the

way they look at race and ethnicity isn’t consistent with how the other school breaks it down. Anyways, I digress.

In terms of cost, obviously UCLA is cheaper (or rather “less expensive”) than USC, but as you can see both schools continue to raise their prices, and UCLA admits far more students than their Downtown L.A. counterparts.

Still, I don’t think there’s a clear winner or loser in this debate. When looking at the admissions figures, it’s disheartening to see tuition rates increase, while the amount of minority students like African Americans, Hispanics and especially Native Americans continue to be admitted in such low rates.

So why did I choose these statistics as the scoring system to which school is “better?” Well, because the idea of “better” is no longer relevant at this moment. What’s relevant is whether people are able to go to school in the first place.

It doesn’t matter the name, the title or who has the best program. Right now, college isn’t a right but a luxury, and it shouldn’t be that way.

When I went to college, I never really looked at these types of statistics, the idea of who was accepted where. I just knew that I went to school and could root for my school’s team.

Nowadays, people don’t really have that opportunity.

Campus Circle > Blogs > Seduction Community Expand! Venture into different friend circles and become involved in new extracurricular activities. Chances are that you met each other through mutual friends or some type of extracurricular activity. If you really hate awkward moments, you will want to minimize the time you will encounter and interact with the person under the same setting. Therefore, it is smart for you to become more social and thus, expand your circle to meet new people. Think of this type of avoidance more as a social development and an opportunity to meet future candidates.

Begin dating! If you decide that you still want to keep dating other people, you should not hesitate so the other person gets the message right away without the awkward ambiguity of what is to become of a dusty relationship that has long been shoved away into the attic.

Attacking the Culprit: Talk Straight Up. You probably only feel awkward because you completely stopped talking to the person without any warning. If that’s the case, maybe just drop the person a message, a text, a voicemail, an e-mail or a sticky note if you ever go pass his gym locker (high-school style). It should say that you think it is better that you both resume your own lives and just not see each other anymore. This clears out the confusion, clarifies and defines the relationship so that you won’t need to resort to a permanent refugee status from the person, running away at every potential sign of encounter.

However, what to do if you still want to pick things up from where you left them before summer: First, read into the clues. Has the person contacted you first? How does the person seem to respond when you messaged him or her – responsive, irresponsive, excited, reluctant? Pick up on the clues that the person is giving and evaluate accordingly whether he or she is still interested in

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Talk to the person without any expectations. Walk into the talk without any expectations because you do not know how the other person truly feels after summer. It might be hurtful if the other person does not reciprocate your feelings but focus on vocalizing your feelings to the other person.

Although the person’s interaction with you might suggest that he or she still is interested in you, you can never be fully sure of someone’s real feelings. By walking into a talk with lower expectations, you can feel less disappointment with the final outcome.

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Richard Brooks and Gore Vidal’s fantastic adaptation of the Paddy Chayefsky play The Catered Affair stars Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine.

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A serial killer kidnaps a 6-year-old boy only to take him on as an apprentice in Bereavement, the prequel to the cult hit Malevolence. Michael Biehn and John Savage star.

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Adrien Brody is a man who awakens to find himself trapped at the bottom of a cliff after a car crash with no memory of who he is in Wrecked. Even more mysterious are the two dead passengers, the gun and the pile of money with him.

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A Lesson in the Three Bs: Bikinis, Bakes and Bloodshed by hiko mitsuzuka ‘No sharks were harmed during the mak– ing of this film.”

So says Sara Paxton, one of the scantily clad stars in Shark Night 3D who sat down with me for a chat at the W Hotel in Westwood.

“All animal lovers can be happy about that,” pipes in former “90210”-er Dustin Milligan, Paxton’s co-star in the bikinis-babes-and-blood fest. In fact, no live sharks were used at all (oh, the wonders of animatronics and CGI!).

Taking itself a little more seriously than that other 3D creature features about attractive coeds being eaten alive by underwater critters (cough, Piranha, cough), Shark Night’s scares are a little more grounded in reality and avoids completely settling down in Campy Town. The plot sounds like something out of a slasher flick – sans a masked killer: A group of college friends shack up at an island house on a lake. They take off their clothes. And a death count begins (turns out someone’s released several finned predators on the unsuspecting bunch, and a race for survival starts).

While shooting the film in Shreveport, La., the cast

Campus Circle > Film > Interviews – which also includes “American Idol” alum Katharine McPhee, Chris Carmack (The O.C.”), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Chris Zylka (Piranha 3DD), Sinqua Walls (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”) and Alyssa Diaz (“The Nine Lives of Chloe King”) – discovered all kinds of southern comfort and hospitality, whether it was hitting up some music festivals, enjoying the casinos or sampling the local cuisine. Karaoke especially provided a welcome opportunity for the costars to bond with one other.

Carmack recalls what went down during that musical night: “Kat McPhee obviously took the gold medal on that one. The cooks were running out of the kitchen to come hear her sing. No kidding. They came out, spatulas in hand.”

But not all was fun and play during filming. Before anyone could dive into the local nightlife, most of the cast had to be trained by Navy SEALS in water tanks and learn how to breathe underwater during their first day on set. It wasn’t for the claustrophobic. The cast member with the most difficult challenge to overcome was Diaz, who has a fear of sharks. “When I was filming, to see these sharks, when you’re in open water and you’re vulnerable and you see that fin, you don’t have to act. It’s just terrifying,” she explains.

“And sharing the waters with real-life 14-foot alligators didn’t help. They called cut, and I was like, ‘Get me out! Get me out!’”

For Zylka, the most difficult part was when the acting became an afterthought: “When something’s exploding or a shark is after you, or when you’re on a jet ski, you have to really focus and maintain that you’re trying to create something.”

And then there’s that issue of being in swimsuits for most of the movie. “I’m shirtless the whole time,” Milligan warns, “so there’s a lot of man boobs.” Carmack nods. “Ever

PROJECTIONS by kristina bravo The Big Picture: AFI’s Great American Movie Quiz Hosted By Alex Trebek Sept. 4 @ Hollywood Bowl From hosting the second greatest game show of all time (According to TV Guide, “The Price is Right” is No. 1.) to chasing prowling burglars, it seems that Alex Trebek is a man of many extraordinary talents. Adding to his impressive to-do list, the five-time Daytime Emmy Awards winner of Outstanding Game Show host is presenting The Big Picture: AFI’s Great American Movie Quiz at the Hollywood Bowl this coming Saturday. For the first time ever, film buffs and music connoisseurs will get to take part in a unique movie trivia experience with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

Trebek will guide the audience through 20 multiple choice questions about film trivia from every genre and decade. Spectators will be provided multi-colored glow sticks to answer the questions, lighting up the entire Hollywood Bowl. Adding to the the trippy-ness of it all, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by the prominent film composer David Newman, will reveal the answer live as a corresponding movie clip plays on a huge screen. This sure to be pleasantly bizarre experience is the brainchild of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the American Film Institute (AFI), so you know it’s pretty legit.

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The requisite workouts and diets were a no-brainer, and the fried foods of Shreveport didn’t make their regimens any easier. “We’re constantly at the gym working out. You had to,” Diaz shrugs. “In Louisiana, when they’re giving you ChikFil-A, what are you gonna do?”

But the movie isn’t just about the display of toned body parts, bitten off or not. “For a movie being about sharks in a lake, it was a very well-written script,” Moore says. “As an actor, you want to make sure you have something that you’re working with; it’s not just cheesy dialogue the entire time.”

Zylka agrees: “Each character has redeeming qualities.”

Just like the sharks themselves. After being given a crash course on all the different species of shark, the cast discovered how harmless yet mysterious they can be in real life.

“We learned that pigs kill more people per year than sharks,” Milligan proudly notes.

Is that the scent of a potential spin-off?

“Pig Night 3D,” Paxton deadpans. “I’m just throwing it out there.”

Shark Night 3D releases in theaters Sept. 2.

Campus Circle > Film > Projections for the Good Burger Party & BBQ this Labor Day weekend.

They will be screening Good Burger, “the single greatest ’80s movie made in the mid-’90s,” while you chow down on some grilled ground beef patties at Cinefamily’s all-night back patio burger bar.

The movie stars Nickelodeon alumni Keenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell (“All That” and “Keenan and Kel”) as two wacky teenagers who try to save an independent burger joint from the big, bad Mondo Burger chain across the street.

Their admirable cause brings them an adventure filled with outrageous twists and turns, including spy schemes, mental asylum breakouts and transvestitism. For $10 (or if your a Cinefamily member, it’s free!), you get a barbecue party and a movie!

The Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre is located at 611 North Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles. For more information, visit cinefamily.org.

Cinecon 47: Classic Film Festival Sept. 1-5 @ The Egyptian Theatre If you want to go back further in time and are looking for a more old Hollywood classic film experience, then the Cinecon film festival is your answer. For five days, Cinecon 47 will be screening rare films from the silent and early sound era (think 1920s and ’30s). The festival has sifted through the Hollywood archives and vaults to bring the best movies from the past for your viewing pleasure at the Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Genres range from comedy and drama to musicals and Westerns.

An added bonus is the live musical accompaniment to play along with the silent films. One to especially look out for is the special presentation of the documentary Cinerama Adventure (2003), which chronicles the history of the three-

Kennan Thompson and Kel Mitchell star in Good Burger. camera, three-projector cinematic process that defined the motion picture industry in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Filmmakers Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch will make an in-person appearance.

The festival will also be screening East Side, West Side (1927), the first time in over 80 years in Los Angeles. Other standouts in the lineup are Blazing Days (1927), an early Western film by Oscar-winning director William Wyler, Stormy Weather (1943), a musical starring an all-star cast including Lena Home and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, and Hands Up! (1926), the classic silent comedy featuring Raymond Griffith. Sunday will finish up one classy night with a cocktail reception and a banquet!

The Egyptian Theater is located at 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. For more information, visit cinecon.org.

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A Good Old Fashioned orgy Going out with a bang! by jason burnley Co-writers and first-time directors Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory deliver a solidly commercial picture modeled on ’80s summer college comedies. Shot three years ago, the film scored big at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Let’s face it the audience is lured in by the hope of seeing one thing and one thing only. If gratuitous sex is what you came to see then you wont be let down. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy definitely earns its R rating.

A close group of 30-somethings spends every weekend throwing elaborate theme parties at their friend Eric’s (Jason Sudeikis) family home in the Hamptons. When Eric’s dad (played by Don Johnson) informs the group that he intends to sell their beloved Hamptons playground, the friends agree there is only one way to have the biggest and brashest send-off party: a good old-fashioned orgy.

Bringing Orgy to the big screen took 14 years from door to door. Gregory and Huyck began writing the script in 1997 when the Emmy-nominated team was writing for HBO’s “The Larry Sanders Show.”

Campus Circle > Film > Interviews “The movie came about after we talked to a friend who said he’d been to a party in the hills where an orgy broke out, and we didn’t believe him,” explains Huyck.

It took The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up as proven hits before people would take the movie seriously, even though the script was written several years before. This movie has an extraordinary ensemble cast, including the always-enjoyable Lindsay Sloane (“Weeds,” Horrible Bosses), Nick Kroll (Little Fockers) and Sudeikis’ “SNL” coworker, Will Forte.

Kroll, who plays Adam, explains, “I credit Pete and Alex for putting together a cast of people who would be game for an orgy but also become very close friends.” “We cast people that we thought we wanted to be friends with,” adds Gregory.

Filming in North Carolina also assisted with the culti– vation of real friendships among the cast members, as the actors each lived in small apartments next door to each other in downtown Wilmington.

“We watched the making of The Big Chill and the making of Dazed and Confused, and the cast had really bonded before shooting, it allowed for a certain kind of emotional closeness and bonding that you just can’t fake,” shares Gregory When it came to filming the how and the why of the orgy scenes, the filmmakers decided on quite an unorthodox strategy. With most productions, the choice is made to film the sex scenes early on. The rationale being that the relationships are still new and the scenes can be captured prior to any possible tension or passion that might not make the scene play out right. However, in Orgy, they took the opposite approach and filmed the orgy scene on the last few days of production. This gamble paid off since the friendships formed during the course of filming, not only among the cast but with the directors as well, helped to make what was sure to be a highly awkward work environment a lot less tense.

MOVIEREVIEWS The Debt (Focus Features) In The Debt, directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Proof), two retired Mossad agents in 1990s Israel receive news that may or may not unravel what they told to reporters – and the world – after returning from a secret mission in Germany in 1966. On this mission, the agents – Rachel, Stephan and David – were responsible for capturing an ex-Nazi doctor; and, as a result, have been celebrated by their country for 30 years. However, as we begin to learn shortly into the film, this may or may not have actually been the case.

The setup for The Debt is top-notch: It comes across as an espionage thriller from the start, laced with elements of politics, secrecy and Nazi horror. After Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) receive terrifying news regarding David (Ciarán Hinds), their lives begin to take an unexpected turn.

It is then that we, the audience, are transported to 1960s East Berlin, able to see what actually happened when Rachel, Stephan and David (played during this period by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington, respectively) attempted to track down and capture Vogel (Jesper Christensen), the self-proclaimed Surgeon of Birkenau, who went to work as an ob-gyn after the war.

The Berlin setup is slow going but interesting, as we see the three agents – all under 30 years old – learning about each other’s strengths, weaknesses and experiences. At the same time they are educating themselves about Vogel and his many crimes, which included doing experiments on children in the concentration camp during the Holocaust. When we get into the meat of what’s happening in Berlin, the film starts to jump back and forth between past and present, interlacing things that actually happened with things that were perceived

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Leslie Bibb and Jason Sudeikis in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Always the support system, both Gregory and Huyck, along with some members of the crew, helped to put the actors more at ease by shooting the scene in their boxers!

Gregory says, “There were also moments when we had to step up and demonstrate our solidarity with the cast, like when they insisted we get our asses ferociously paddled by Lake Bell to experience what we were asking Nick Kroll to endure, take after painful take.”

The issue of gender did not influence how the scene played out either. The film made sure to convey that all participants in the orgy were on a level playing field. The semi-nudity isn’t just for the male viewer’s enjoyment.

“A lot of sex-themed comedies play up what we believe is a largely fictitious gender war. We wanted the ladies to be in on the absurdity,” says Gregory.

The actors really committed to their roles, and no body doubles were used. All of the male actors did their own “stunts.” A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is a raunchy yet hilarious tale of friendship, growing up and moving on with a little bit of sex thrown in for good measure.

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy releases in theaters Sept. 2.

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While the film’s premise is ultimately intriguing and the cast – especially Mirren and Wilkinson – is extremely noteworthy, The Debt fails to live up to its initial promise.

Granted, there are bits of excitement here and there that make the Berlin scenario exciting and intriguing. However, the film’s main downfall happens to be its lackluster characters, all of whom end up being quite forgettable by the film’s end.

The juicy subject matter of The Debt manages to propel it forward, but even this becomes soggy when the characters begin to enter into certain romantic entanglements. And while we ultimately feel bad for the situation they have landed in, it is difficult to feel real emotion for Rachel, Stephan or David, as they all come off a bit one-sided and uninteresting.

Grade: C+ —Abbi Toushin The Debt releases in theaters Aug. 31.

Love Crime (Sundance Selects) Providing a spin to the murder suspense genre, Love Crime brings a stylistic approach to the crime drama.

It’s a combination of two films rolled into one, and the performances are utterly incredible. Director Alain Corneau directs a great cat-and-mouse story that winds and turns at every direction and makes you scratch your head and wonder what is going to happen next.

In a story of two close-knit friends, ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, then takes delight in toying with the young woman’s innocence. But when the protégé’s ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass on as her own, she underestimates Isabelle’s ambition and cunning – and the ground is set for all out war.

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Kristin Scott Thomas is a chameleon in this film as the evil mentor to Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier). Christine is constantly stealing and taking credit for the Isabelle’s ideas, giving her the opportunity to grow in the company. Isabelle knows that if she keeps sitting idly by Christine will forget her on her way to the top. As the plot thickens, Isabelle gets an opportunity to work on a project and finish it before Christine. But Isabelle comes to realize that the only way she will come out on top is to murder her once friend and mentor. Thus, spinning a dramatic web of murder, guilt and one of the craziest plot twists since Hitchcock.

Scott Thomas is quite believable as Christine, Sagnier’s Isabelle teeters on that fine line of the creepy, unusual girl next door. You will truly enjoy everything Love Crime has to offer, including the stylistic aspect of noir storytelling. The performances and directing of Love Crime will make you leave truly satisfied.

Grade: A—Sean Oliver Love Crime releases in select theaters Sept. 2.

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NEUHEISEL, BRUINS aim strong by marvin vasquez

The UCLA Bruins’ football program comes into the 2011 season with only one certainty, and that is that head coach Rick Neuheisel is evidently in the hot seat. One more unsuccessful season with the Bruins could very easily terminate his coaching duties in Westwood, where he graduated in 1984. A Tempe, Ariz. native, Neuheisel held coaching stints from 1988 to 1989 as a quarterbacks coach at UCLA before serving as the wide receivers coach during 1990 to 1994.

Neuheisel took over the reins as head coach in 2008 at his alma mater. This year’s new Pac-12 transition figures to be the most challenging time for him because of the conference’s expansion, improved competition in opponents and the reality that his coaching career at UCLA can come to an end when this season is completed.

“I guess you’re excited to be invited to any of these things,” Neuheisel says during Pac-12 media day. “I am looking forward to the upcoming season. I know I say that every year, but never more so than this year.”

The fact of the matter is that coaches tend to utter what is supposed to be said. In this case, Neuheisel is saying the obvious and what is expected. He is just hoping for the best

Campus Circle > Sports > Football to happen in 2011 in order to at least see 2012 on the horizon.

Neuheisel and his Bruins are scheduled to have an arduous campaign filled with 12 games, six on the road and six at home.

Their season opener is on Saturday, Sept. 3, against Houston in Texas with a 12:30 p.m. kick-off time.

UCLA’s schedule only includes two ranked opponents (Stanford, USC), but that could be misleading since the Bruins have affairs against an always-solid Texas, conference games at Oregon State, Arizona and Utah, and other conference games at home versus California, Arizona State and Colorado. The Bruins’ home games will not be a cool breeze at all, but when they host Texas on Sept. 17 it could point to the direction they’re headed in for the remainder of the season.

Nevertheless, the two most important meetings come at the No. 7 ranked Stanford Cardinal on Oct. 1 and the season finale on Nov. 26 at USC. For UCLA, winning those specified matches are vital to the program’s future in recruiting for the coming years.

“At the end of the day, it’s about us. If we go out and play like we’re capable of playing and put ourselves in postseason play and have a great showing in that capacity, people will come to UCLA because they’ll be intrigued about the momentum of the program,” Neuheisel shares.

A lot of the weight and success for the Bruins, at least offensively, will root and grow from junior running back Johnathan Franklin. A native of Los Angeles who attended Dorsey High School, Franklin led the Bruins in rushing yards with 1,127 in 12 games last season. His 214 rushes also resulted in eight scoring touchdowns, with 93.9 rushing yards per game.

The quarterback competition between juniors Richard Brehaut and Kevin Prince at practices has been quite the battle.

“Brehaut is doing well. I want him to play with the ones.

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trojans ranked 25th aS season begins by marvin vasquez

Head coach Lane Kiffin enters his second full season at the helm of the University of Southern California Trojans football program. Despite facing another year with an already set non-appearance in the postseason, Kiffin has the squad focused, motivated and anxious to begin this season at full strength. And this campaign’s team is quite talented, thus prompting the No. 25 preseason ranking.

In 2010 when debuting as a coach for USC, Kiffin posted an 8-5 record with the Trojans. That mark should improve this season. What is even more promising is that the NCAA has ruled in favor of Kiffin pertaining to his troubles at Tennessee.

The NCAA Committee cleared Kiffin of any major violations while head coaching the Volunteers. This is colossal news for Kiffin, USC and its Director of Athletics, Pat Haden.

Now that these events are behind Kiffin and thus the USC football program, Kiffin can truly concentrate at the task at hand: winning as many games as possible while recruiting the best players for the 2012 season. USC opens with a three-

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Richard Brehaut or Kevin Prince could be UCLA’s starting QB. says. “I’m going to continue to evaluate and continue to see. I think the fact that they are pushing for this opportunity to be the starting quarterback is making them both better. There is no reason to call off the jam yet. Let’s keep going.”

UCLA is very deep at the wide receiver position, which includes Jerry Rice Jr. “We are as deep as we have ever been here at receiver. Jerry Johnson and Taylor Embree haven’t participated in camp, and both made some plays for us last year,” Neuheisel says. “The addition of Shaquelle Evans and Devin Lucien, who both have played well in camp, along with proven guys like Nelson Rosario have given us a chance, and Ricky Marvray is playing well. Josh Smith and Randall Carroll are playing well. It’s a fun crew and to mention Jerry Rice Jr., is a jack of all trades.”

The Bruins’ offense can be expected to produce solidly, but the question could very well lie with their defense. Regardless of the formula that is used, however, the Bruins must reach a significant bowl game at season’s end in order for Neuheisel to stay longer as head coach.

Campus Circle > Sports > Football game homestand, which could virtually set them up for a 3-0 start. Minnesota pays the Coliseum a visit on Sept. 3, but the following two games will be a bit more interesting: The Trojans face Utah and Syracuse back to back. The men of Troy have three prominent affairs against some of the best competition in the nation. They play at No. 16 Notre Dame (Oct. 22), host No. 7 Stanford (Oct. 29) and visit No. 3 Oregon (Nov. 19). And, of course, USC still has its showdown against cross-town rival UCLA at season’s end on Nov. 26.

The Trojans could go undefeated at 12-0, but even a 9-3 or 10-2 record could happen with this talented unit. Just how talented are the Trojans? Extremely talented. USC’s depth will be its strength yet again, both defensively and offensively.

Junior Matt Barkley returns as the sole quarterback starter and the leader for the USC offense. Last season, Barkley threw for nearly 3,000 yards and 26 touchdowns with a completion percentage of 62.6 percent. The only area where he needs to improve is in tossing interceptions, where he committed 12.

On the rushing side, Marc Tyler will lead the carry load.

Tyler is beyond talented as a running back, but his off-field issues have led to questions for his success on the field. He rushed for 930 yards last season.

USC’s secret weapon, however, is Robert Woods. A sophomore who attended Carson High School, Woods is legitimately the biggest threat for the dangerous offense. Woods did not see that much production offensively last year, but we can classify it as a shining season because he was a freshman.

He posted 65 receptions, nearly 800 receiving yards and six touchdowns. In kick-off returns, he came close to collecting 1,000 yards. He is a dangerous athlete, an exciting receiver and a productive returner.

With head coach Kiffin’s father, Monte Kiffin, leading the defensive side, the Trojans can very well count in solid stats

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In their Aug. 21 scrimmage, the offense looked very sharp; Barkley connected with Woods for three touchdowns.

“We got a lot of things done in this scrimmage that we were hoping. The passing game really got going,” Kiffin says after the scrimmage. “We had already seen the running game in past scrimmages, so it was more critical to get the passing game going. It was great to see the effect a healthy Woods can have, and (Marqise) Lee was phenomenal.”

Defensively, USC played well, but certain areas can be improved upon.

“Our first-team defense did really well against the run,” Kiffin adds. “But it’s always hard to judge scrimmages, because when you’re making big plays on one side, it means you’re giving up something on the other side.”

After this season concludes, it is just a matter of time before Kiffin leads the Trojans to BCS games.

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by stephanie nolasco Iggy Pop loves to laugh. Sometimes it’s like hearing a mischievous child who just committed a naughty deed. Other times, he resembles a maniacal villain ready to claim victory over the world. The “Godfather of Punk,” as he is known by his followers, has many reasons to smile these days. Back in 2009, his band, famously known as the Stooges, reunited with guitarist James Williamson, who joined the group for the recording of their 1973 release, Raw Power. It was a happy reunion for the band, which dissolved in 1974 and, after reforming in 2003, suffered the lost of fellow guitarist Ron Asheton, who died of a heart attack. Despite the setbacks, the Stooges successfully managed to get together and garner a new generation of fans anxiously waiting to see one of the founding fathers of punk in action. For Pop, it’s business as usual.

“When I first moved in with the Stooges during the ’60s, nobody said good morning,” chuckles Pop. “They were really a gruff bunch. Everyone is a bit more polite now. Maybe everyone appreciates each other a little more, but when we’re on the road it’s like we’re living together again. Some of the big differences are: The bathrooms work, the kitchen has food and there are no creepy substances. A lot of the same stuff is

there, as with any group that formed in the ’60s, like all sorts of simmering resentments, frictions and opposing points of view that make life exciting.”

To commemorate the Stooges’ return to music, the band mates are set to release a new DVD, Raw Power Live: In the Hands of the Fans, which captures their 2010 performance of their debut album in its entirety at All Tomorrow’s Parties in New York. Raw Power, a ferocious, violent masterpiece, is the snarling love child of teenage angst and seductive rock ’n’ roll, a parent’s worst nightmare and the salvation of smalltown youth itching to be free from society’s chains. It was the breakthrough of Michigan’s James Newell Osterberg, Jr., a shirtless wild child who would rub peanut butter and raw steaks all over his lanky figure, cut his chest open with broken glass, howl like an animal and stage dive like a man on fire jumping into the ocean. It’s no wonder audiences continue to crave Pop’s live performance of his 1973 album. Pop even admits that if he needs something stronger than coffee in the morning, playing Raw Power instantly wires him up.

“When we started, we would just go out on stage and it was like a bomb going off,” explains Pop. “People headed back to the room instinctively. We threatened them. It’s been a great pleasure to be able to go out again and play songs that were really designed to rock the house and see the house rock. That’s some of our take for doing events for people who weren’t walking around in the ’60s. You know, as in the dino word.”

It’s no surprise that younger generations of listeners continue to discover and appreciate Raw Power, especially since today’s music is dominated by excessive technology and sickly sweet pop. Without hesitation, Pop exclaims that rock shows today have become “too boring” for his taste.

“I don’t know why it is, but no one seems to be able to move forward these days,” he admits. “Maybe it’s for a lot of

LIVESHOWREVIEWS Glitch Mob/RJD2 Aug. 19 @ Club Nokia It was a clash of the times at Club Nokia. In one corner we had RJD2, who, with his five turntables and countless records, crafted organic beats without the assistance of computers. In the other corner we had the Glitch Mob, the three-piece group who has made a name for themselves with their bass-heavy electronic grooves that likely require more computers to produce than Apollo 13.

RJD2’s performance was nothing short of incredible.

Watching someone craft highly original tracks from just turntables and vinyl is really something special. The retro infused, cop chase movie visuals complimented his Motown Era dance music hybrid phenomenally well.

The hybrid crowd was an interesting fusion of drug addled USC undergraduates and 30-something dads, but everyone on board was having a great time. The various levels of Club Nokia helped and hurt the experience for all.

If you were lucky enough to get on the floor, you would have experienced one hell of a light show courtesy of the Glitch Mob. The L.A.-based three-piece has been around for a while, not nearly as long as RJD2, however, but their fans were nonetheless much more enthusiastic about the performance.

Opening with their remix of Daft Punk’s “Derezzed” taken off the Tron soundtrack, the Glitch Mob was on fire out of the gate.

Their wild light show would have made deadmau5 jealous and really went well with the techy, computer-heavy tunage. Each member tapped and drummed away to live MIDI control devices with precision and expertise, creating the bass heavy electronic sound they are renowned for.

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reasons, but the obvious thing that comes to mind is because it’s so tempting and easy to refer to something that’s already very familiar to make a buck.”

Since his days of working at a record shop at age 18, Pop still has the undying energy and charisma that his idols, Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison, possessed. And while many performers from the ’60s and ’70s are long gone or quietly disappeared from the spotlight, Pop continues marching on and making noise. Today, he enjoys a seemingly tamer regimen of double espressos, plenty of sleep and qigong exercise. Before a performance, he does wuji breathing, a method taught to him by a tai chi master that involves 500 very deep breaths, which, he states laughing, is his “drug substitute.”

Chances are fans will never see the Stooges cashing in on reality TV fame, but they might want to cross their fingers for a new album soon. “I’ve been writing with James, and I think he’d like to record an album,” explains Pop. “I wouldn’t mind putting out some music, but I wish there was another context.

Maybe create a scary toy and when you press the button, you hear our music. I’m still looking for something.”

Raw Power Live DVD will be available Sept. 27. Iggy and the Stooges perform Sept. 7 at the Palladium. For more information, visit iggyandthestoogesmusic.com.

Campus Circle > Music > Live Show Reviews by the show’s Friday night timeslot. Regardless, it was a wildly entertaining synthesis of organic and electronic; with high-energy performances by both RJD2 and the Glitch Mob that reminded everyone why they listen to this music to begin with.

—Zach Bourque

Dyland y Lenny Aug. 21 @ CityWalk’s 5 Towers The Descarga Plugged in Summer Live Music Series continued Sunday night with special performances from Dyland y Lenny, Beatriz Luengo and DS the Evolution at the new stage, 5 Towers, within Universal Studios’ CityWalk.

Having received a solid reception in the East Coast and large Latin-American markets, the young duo DS the Evolution opened the night with their urban bachata (romantic ballads from the Dominican Republic). This hotly new sensation sang their most recognizable hit thus far in “Te Ves Fatal (You Seem Fatal).”

Not knowing what to expect, the crowd next witnessed a lovely, ebullient yet bohemian performance from Spanish newcomer Beatriz Luengo. The 28-year-old completely captivated the audience with her diverse beats, rhythms, lively voice and charismatic persona. Her popular “Como Tú No Hay 2” single was a beautiful display of her musical work, which features reggae and pop fusions.

To close the night, Dyland y Lenny was called upon. This Puerto Rican reggaeton duo delivered an upbeat mix to the event, which was filled early. Dyland y Lenny fired first with “Caliente (Hot)” and continued with a romantic singing gesture in “Nadie Te Amará Como Yo (No One Will Love You Like I Do).”

An energetic urban merengue melody, “Quiere Pa’ Que

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The Glitch Mob’s wild light show went well with their computer-heavy tunage.

Te Quieran (Love So You Can Be Loved)” finalized the show.

Filled with uptempo beats and contagious dancing moves, Dyland y Lenny finished the act in style.

Throughout this summer of 2011, Telemundo and mun2 have brought Latin music to the Los Angeles community every Sunday night in Universal City.

—Marvin Vasquez

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Stops Off in L.A. with the Crystal Method by josh herwitt

The Crystal Method perform at the first Identity.

When details of the first Identity Festival were announced in early May, electronic music fans in Los Angeles quickly circled Sept. 4 on their calendars. As one of 20 cities on the festival’s nationwide tour this summer, Los Angeles would be welcoming some of the world’s best DJs to play on the same stage for one night. What fans didn’t know, though, was how difficult it would be for festival promoters to find a venue in Southern California to host the event. Originally slated to take place in Orange County, the festival’s first venue wasn’t anywhere near the OC when it was finally revealed in July. The festival, rather, had migrated much further east, where promoters set their eyes on San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore. The news caused an uproar from many fans, who openly voiced their disapproval for the venue choice and the festival lineup on Identity’s Facebook page.

And a month later, the promoters listened. Late last week, a new venue was announced for Identity Festival – one that actually was within L.A. county lines. Now, the Hollywood Palladium will host the first-time festival that features a lineup of top-notch artists, including Colorado-based producer Pretty Lights, French DJ Étienne de Crécy, German house duo Booka Shade and electronica legend Pete Tong.

“It’s all about expressing how you feel, your personality,” Arno Kammermeier says when it comes to the music he creates with Walter Merziger in Booka Shade. “Anybody can produce a nice, functional club track, but to produce something personal – music that is the essence of who you are – that is much more difficult.”

While a star-studded lineup hits the main stage, Identity Festival’s two other stages shouldn’t disappoint either with sets from Steve Aoki, the Crystal Method, White Shadow, Doorly and LA Riots. Campus Circle spoke with Ken Jordan, who partners with Scott Kirkland in the Crystal Method, to get his thoughts on how the Identity Festival has gone so far and what we can expect at this year’s L.A. show.

Why did you guys sign on to play the first-ever Identity Festival this summer?

We thought it was a very ambitious, cool tour. We liked the fact that it was all electronic artists and it was traveling to a lot of cities that don’t normally get big electronic shows.

We’re familiar with doing these kind of tours since 1996 and thought it would be a great thing to be a part of the first one.

How has the tour gone so far and what has surprised you the most about it?

We’re really happy with the crowds. The stage we’re playing on, the Dim Mak stage, has amazing sound. We have a great visual guy with us. But what’s surprised me is how big dubstep is. People love dubstep everywhere.

Because dubstep is so popular now among electronic music fans, do you guys feel like you have to adapt to that at all?

We never really react that way to a new sound, but dubstep is very at home with us. Our early stuff was always one side as a faster tempo and the other side as a hip-hop tempo.

We’re very comfortable living in the dubstep world. We’ve had some dubstep remixes of our tracks done already, and there probably will be some dubstep influences on future stuff. But we’re not going to turn into a dubstep act.

You guys have been together for almost 20 years. What’s it like playing at an event with much younger acts such as Pretty Lights and Skrillex who have only been around for a few years?

We’re used to it. We’re always playing different venues with young acts. The music we make generally caters to a younger audience, although we usually have two or three generations of fans at our shows now. But that doesn’t bother us, it’s really cool actually.

Before hitting the road for this year’s Identity Festival, did you guys feel like you had to take a certain approach that you hadn’t done on previous tours?

The one thing we wanted to do that was different was the contraption we’re playing. We took a CDJ-2000 that we got from Pioneer, and they asked us as well as a few different artists to turn it into an art project. It was going to be a traveling exhibit, and then the individual pieces we’re going to be auctioned off for charity. So we’ve created this thing that has our album artwork, a mini keyboard and two bass guitar necks on it. At first it was just an art piece, but Pioneer liked it so much they asked us to make some working versions. And that’s what we’re playing on this tour. It’s pretty fun to watch.

Identity Festival is Sept. 4 at the Palladium. For more information, visit idfestival.com.

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MUSICREPORT by kevin wierzbicki Chelsea Wolfe: Apokalypsis?

It’s probably fitting that Chelsea Wolfe’s second album opens with a hair-raising, animalistic snarl, the sound of some beastly metamorphosis caught on tape. Wolfe has gone through a bit of a change herself; she’s newly relocated to Los Angeles where the city’s mix of gloss and grit has inspired her doom-drenched electric folk music.

Wolfe’s voice has been described as haunting and haunted, whether by angels or demons is left for the listener to decide.

Fans will also have to determine just how they’re going to refer to the new album; Wolfe calls the work ?????????? but says that the 10 question marks are pronounced Apokalypsis.

While you’re trying to figure that out, give a listen to the whole album; it’s currently streaming at npr.org.

“The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse” David J, (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) who brought Silver for Gold, the story of Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick to the L.A. stage, has turned his attention to the story of the mutilation of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, commonly referred to as the case of the Black Dahlia.

In “The Chanteuse and the Devil’s Muse,” David J’s musical framework is melded together with the story of torch singer Madi Comfort, a historical figure in the real case and whose paramour was one of the prime suspects in Short’s grisly murder.

“With this production we are revisiting the Black Dahlia song cycle that was originally composed for the independent feature film The Devil’s Muse,” David J explains. “In this new staging I’m reuniting with my original musical collaborator, Ego Plum, and here the music works as a framework around

Campus Circle > Music > Music Report which another related story is interwoven.”

The play actually poses a theory regarding the killer; find out what it is by attending a performance at the Bootleg Theatre Sept. 8-Oct. 1.

Iration Wants You to Get Lei’d Hawaiian-bred, Santa Barbara-based reggae-rockers Iration have announced the dates for their fall Lei’d Back Tour, set to begin in late September, and singer Kai Rediske is revved-up about the headlining gigs.

“We love bringing our music live to the fans,” says Rediske.

“This summer was awesome because we got the chance to introduce ourselves to an even larger audience at the festivals we played, and the response was great! Now we’re getting ready to take it back out for the Lei’d Back Tour. We’re stoked!”

The nearest Lei’d Back stops will be in San Diego in November, but Iration isn’t passing up the home turf completely; the band performs this Saturday at the Shoreline Jam in Long Beach along with Pepper, Soja and Tomorrow’s Bad Seeds.

Labor Day Yacht Party If you’re still trying to think of something to do this long holiday weekend, how about a party at sea? The Ninth Annual Labor Day Yacht Party, Mini-cruise and BBQ will set sail aboard the Fantasea One Mega-Yacht on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5. The fun includes four decks of DJs, karaoke, foosball, ping-pong, barbecue, cabanas, bottle service and VIP service.

Tickets for the four-hour cruise featuring DJ Coolwhip and DJ Armin begin at $35, and that price includes the barbecue. The Fantasea One departs from Dock 52 in Marina del Rey, and you’ll need to check in at 2 p.m. for a 4 p.m. departure. onenightentertainment.biz.

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KATY PERRY SETS RECORD Singer Redefining Pop Star by eva recinos It’s rare to find anyone WHO doesn’t know the name Michael Jackson. Even if you’re not a hardcore pop fan, the infectious beats, offbeat personality and inexplicably suave dance moves of Jackson have kept him in the public’s mind for years and years.

When you ask someone who Katy Perry is, the reaction and knowledge might not be the same, but surely a good number of people know the girl who kissed another girl and liked it.

And now she’s carving her place into the pop world by becoming the first person since Jackson to have the most No. 1 tracks from a single album, which Jackson achieved with Bad. The tunes that have dropped like sprinkles and candy from Perry’s Teenage Dream have just pushed her fame into a new phase altogether.

Perry’s emphasis on everything candy-colored and sweet might make her seem like a girl next door who just got in touch with the right people, but this new record is making it clear that Perry is serious about making chart-topping tunes. Her tracks manage to sneak up on you, overtaking most music listeners with their catchiness and unrestrained cuteness. And their infectiousness is making her into a veritable pop star.

What Perry has found is the classic formula of any pop star:

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Samiam: Trips It’s been five years since indie rockers Samiam have put out any new music, but the band that blasted out of Berkeley at the same time as Green Day and Jawbreaker is about to remedy that situation with a new release called Trips. In fact, Trips was recorded at Green Day’s Jingletown Studios, something that Samiam singer Jason Beebout arranged while he was surfing with Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong. Trips is said to return to the sound the band favored on their Astray and Clumsy albums, and Beebout explains how the album got its name.

“That word really sums up what the record is about – the journey of life through memories, obstacles and places.

Each trip is an adventure in itself and all a part of the whole adventure. Trippy!”

Trips drops on Sept. 6 via Hopeless Records.

Campus Circle > Music > Music Notes Tap into your audience’s desires, dreams and heartbreak and transform them into tracks that anyone and everyone can sing at the top of their lungs. The songs that have gained her this record relate to this generation’s shared youth. She’s virtually transforming Facebook statuses and text messages into lyrics for cleverly crafted songs like “This Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” and burrowing into the more serious aspects of burning love with tracks like “E.T.” Yet Jackson’s Bad album was more in the vein of explaining how, well, bad he was and why we should love him for it. But we’ve yet to receive a chart-topping hit that tells us anything about Perry’s personality itself. We get more of our own shared experiences and less of Perry’s actual personality, which seems to be redefining the pop star.

The pop stars in this generation must not be narcissistic themselves but feed into the party culture that celebrates the fact that Facebook pictures of last night’s events are there for everyone to see. Give listeners themselves in a cutely packaged track and they’ll eat it up and send it rocketing to the top of charts.

Jackson also created society-conscious and heartbreakridden tracks, but the feeling is always that he is a cool man with enough swagger to knock anyone’s socks off. Perry, on the other hand, seems more like our best friend with a sweet voice, a never-ending wardrobe and a good production team.

She sings back late-night adventures and even invites Rebecca Black over for her music video. What more could a pop fan ask for?

The definition and persona of the pop star is getting to be less about individual kinks and more about collective identity.

Sure, Perry’s sometimes purple hair and flirty attire create a quirky and loveable character, but we don’t know exactly who she is. Jackson’s attire, voice and persona are identifiable

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anywhere and difficult to replicate, but it seems Perry just wants us to dress up with her and have as much fun as we want.

But keeping fame for as long as Jackson has without releasing new tracks is a different record to reach altogether.

Perry’s generational messages might ring fun now, but will they still hold up decades from now?

Presently, Perry’s formula is obviously successful. Pop music has always been the genre to dance to, and there’s no doubt that Perry’s tunes dare you to try and sit still while you listen to them. For this singer who was once a Christian songstress, the accomplishment is not only flattering but is setting an obvious tone for the pop world – the more you sing about crazy adventures, misadventures and everything in between, the better.

Meanwhile, the next YouTube star sitting in his/her room belting out a new tune and hoping to catapult into stardom should consider heavy use of glitter, party-friendly notes and perhaps even the ability to make quick costume changes.

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See Bring Me the Horizon put on one hell of a show Sept. 2 at the Palladium.

Ry Cuming Sept. 1 @ Hotel Cafe Good, old-fashioned singer-songwriter acoustic ballads, just the way our great six-string wielding forefathers intended it to be. Except from an Australian import.

Yeah … I didn’t know how to feel about it at first either. But then I actually heard Cuming sing, and all bets were off. With his signature delicate crooning and strumming, Cuming can speak volumes with just a whisper and without any need for hard shredding.

Even though he might’ve been raised a few continents over, Cuming’s beach-inspired odes are as much a perfect soundtrack for a West Coast summer as they are for his native waterfront hometown.

Fair warning though, grab some extra napkins with your manly alcohol beverage of choice, because you’re gonna’ need them by the time Cuming’s done playing. He’s that good.

Janet Jackson Sept. 1 @ The Greek Come on, y’all. It’s Janet. Janet. The iconic voice. The singles that defined the last three decades of the pop and R&B genres. The continuously envelope-pushing musicianship and performanceship. Ms. Jackson should be on everyone’s list of artists to see at least once in your life – for the fact that she’s been performing nearly her whole life and continues to be relevant in the club, on the radio and in the grand scheme of both of those aforementioned genres.

Bring Me the Horizon Sept. 2 @ The Palladium There was a time in the not-so-recent past that I had quite a few very critical comments about this band. Whether my arguments were valid and justified or I was being a “hater,” as the kids like to say these days, is probably irrelevant at this point. The people who like this kind of music love this band with a fiery, ’til death passion, and the people that don’t have moved on to other, more terrible bands in this scene to criticize. Me, I’m torn between both worlds, a state I’ve been in since the band toured with Every Time I Die. On the one hand, if it’s good enough to share a stage with Keith Buckley, it’s good enough for me. On the other, a very large portion of the band’s demographic is comprised of underage girls who want inside lead singer Oli Sykes pants and the remainder are the douchiest underage tattooed frat boys of tomorrow with “issues” they need to work out in the pit or whatever. News flash to the former: Look at his pants he can barely fit himself in them, let alone you. And to the latter: You all live in the suburbs and have first-world problems, get over it.

That said, these dudes put on one hell of a live show. To the point I almost feel guilty for judging them largely because of their fandom. Almost. Point is, the British-bred metalcore act is nothing if not unhinged intensity when they take stage. It’s not always comprehensible, but the fivesome are a sonic freight train on the verge of derailment from the second their set starts. Perhaps that unpredictability can work in their favor when their fan base reaches inevitable legality.

The Daylights Sept. 3 @ Hotel Café And now for something completely different than the aforementioned show pick, a little bit of southern indie rock, served up L.A. style, courtesy of the Daylights. The threesome of native sons is one of the best bands our local scene has to offer and is proof that, contrary to sometime-popular beliefs, we do indeed have a viable music scene out here.

Frontman Ran Jackson puts his fellow local frontmen to shame with powerful and evocative vocals and his band mates likewise match his ability to set an emotional mood instrumentally, making Hotel Café a perfect place to see them at their best. I would even go so far as to designate the Daylights as my do-not-miss band of the week, because while a lot of bands try to do the “acoustic slow jams” thing to a trite and contrived effect, these guys bring nothing but authenticity to the stage.

Volbeat’s addicting ener– gy and heavy rock performances have made them into a household name across Europe, and with frequent appearances in North America, they’ve become a hot commodity around the music beat. Their ability to combine rockabilly with heavy metal and punk rock has been a formula for success, instantly winning fans in each city with remarkable shows every night. Currently on their Grand Summer Tour promoting their latest album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, the four-piece act stopped by Chinatown while drummer Jon Larsen shared a few words before their sound check.

Although appearing heavily immersed in religious tones and messages from its title, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven is far from it.

“Michael [Poulsen] would have a better interpretation about the album title since he came up with it,” comments Larsen about the lead singer. “But as a band, we feel it’s a way of telling our fans and listeners we don’t believe in anything close to Heaven or Hell.

To us, it’s a place that exists inside everyone’s heads, and they deal with their personal demons. At the same time, we also leave it up for interpretation. Everyone has a different relationship or feeling towards our albums and music, so it’s always great to hear our fans responses to it.”

When Volbeat played at home in Denmark four years ago, they found themselves opening for Metallica during their World Magnetic Tour, which led to a once-in-alifetime invitation to the Big Four Festivals across Europe. They continued supporting Metallica as they headed back to the states, gaining mainstream exposure across venues and arenas in major city markets.

“Contrary to what the media reported, the backstage energy with Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica was incredible. Everyone was getting along, and good vibes were everywhere,” Larsen reveals. “One of the shows we did in Europe, we were actually scheduled to go on after Metallica on a separate stage and we were all intimidated. It was raining and cold, and everyone was leaving after the Metallica set, but when people showed up to our stage it turned out to be an unforgettable show.”

Earlier this spring, Volbeat were featured as one of the performing artists at the Revolver Golden God Awards in Los Angeles. Scott Ian from Anthrax joined them on stage as they played their hit cover of Dusty Springfield’s “I Only Want to Be With You.” “We haven’t really done any major events outside of Denmark, so playing the Golden Gods was huge for us,” shares Larsen. “Being backstage was amazing, everybody from every band was there, and it still throws me off when I think back and remember that as I left my dressing room, Alice Cooper passed by. Scott had played a few songs with us on tour with his band the Damned Things, so when we asked him to play on stage with us, he was more than excited.”

Since introducing their unique and inviting sound of punk rockabilly metal to the world, their wide range of roots and influences has launched them into their own genre.

“We are four very different people, our musical styles are all over the place,” laughs Larsen. “Michael and I have known each other since we were teenagers, and both of us came from the death metal scene. We’ve always been attracted to different musical styles and when we started Volbeat, our songs sounded like Sabbath mixed with the Offspring and Ramones, then the Stones. So we just blended everything together by combining all the music we loved.”

With a summer headlining tour and a European tour scheduled right after, they still remain humble and content with their upward success.

“We aren’t a demanding band at all,” chuckles Larsen. “Our low-maintenance attitude has followed us from the start. As long as I have coffee, then I’m happy. Michael loves to drink Gatorade, but we are all really basic when it comes to being on the road. If we can get something to eat, have some water or a few beers with the bands, then we’re good.

In the end, if you have all these huge demands on the road, I think it makes people look stupid.”

Volbeat perform Sept. 3 at House of Blues Anaheim and Sept. 4 at House of Blues Sunset Strip. For more information, visit volbeat.dk.

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SPECIALFEATURES Afrobeta Under the Streets (Do IT Music Group) Under the Streets, the debut album from Miami dance duo Afrobeta continues to bring the hype from their 2010 Do You Party? EP. The duo blends Cuci Amador’s silky vocals with Tony Smurphio’s synth lines that bring the heat of the dancefloor throughout the album.

Lead single, “Play House,” evokes comparisons to Daft Punk with its slick rhythms and hypnotizing hooks. The dubstep craze is everywhere, and it finds its way on “Jealousy.”

The greatest strength of this album is the variety on each track. The lively and interesting nature of Under the Streets is due in part to Amador’s success with Calle 13 and Smurphio’s involvement with Pitbull. Both know how to bring the energy and the right vibe to each track.

Grade: A —Richard Castañeda Under the Streets is currently available.

Eric Sardinas & Big Motor Sticks & Stones (Provogue) Eric Sardinas does not sing like or have a guitar playing style similar to the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, but he is a bluesrocking dynamo who, like Vaughan with his Double Trouble rhythm section, sounds great working in the trio format – in this case bassist Levell Price and drummer Chris Frazier, aka Big Motor.

To pull that off you have to have some chops, and Sardinas does; his custom-made-for-the-blues voice is a smoky mash-up of the pipes of George Thorogood and Glenn Danzig while his slide playing on electrified resonator guitars conjures a sound that could’ve given Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins big old grins of delight.

Songs like “Road to Ruin” and “Cherry Wine” are joyous blues rockers that fans of classic rock act Humble Pie will find familiar, while “Full Tilt Mama” skips ahead a couple of decades to tap into the party tune vibe that Thorogood is so good at. A good portion of “County Line” lets Big Motor rest and the stripped-down portion of the song allows for a guitar showcase where Sardinas does some exquisite chicken-pickin’ and slide work, a feat he repeats with full instrumentation and a bit more mania on the Vaughn-like “Through the Thorns.”

Sardinas is bubbling just under the big time even though he’s already a critically acclaimed player but throwing Sticks & Stones at the general public may just remedy that.

Grade: B —Kevin Wierzbicki Sticks & Stones is currently available.

Robert Earl Keen Ready for Confetti (Lost Highway) Americana troubadour Robert Earl Keen isn’t as acclaimed as fellow alternative-country artists Lyle Lovett or Townes Van Zandt, but it is not from lack of songwriting talent or longevity (Keen has been around for 30 years.).

Keen’s latest, Ready for Confetti, differs slightly from previous outings. Keen wrote most of the material on the road (He tours incessantly.), and he applies a stripped-down lyrical edge alongside a mostly optimistic attitude.

The title track exemplifies Keen’s upbeat demeanor with a sturdy sing-along chorus and a blend of country-rock with Caribbean seasoning. First single, “I Gotta Go,” is a departure story with a lively pace. Both the heartfelt “Show the World” and the lightly swinging “Top Down” share a comparable conviviality.

Keen’s biting wit hasn’t disappeared and is demonstrated on darkly-dinged “The Road Goes On and On,” an answer song to his classic outlaw tale “The Road Goes on Forever.”

Keen also redoes his middle-aged desperado narrative, “Paint the Town Beige,” giving his story a clearer, cleaner and more

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Grade: B —Doug Simpson Ready for Confetti is currently available.

Sweet Cyanide II (breakdownlane) The hard rockers from the Big Apple return with a musical blitzkrieg attack. Their modern-rock layouts blend infectious harmonies with heart-pounding drumbeats within the first minute of play. Lead singer Sal Scoca’s vocals are contagious throughout the album, igniting energy and catchy choruses with ear shattering screams.

A strong presence of classic rock spreads like wild fire in multiple songs, clearly citing their influential roots and musical upbringing. Their romantically inspired ballads leave a dark atmosphere without appearing vulnerable or exposed. The lyrics arrive from a dark and tormented point of view, making it a perfect scenario for an angst-motivated audience.

The album screams for a live audience, leaving listeners salivating for a circle pit of destruction, sweat and sore muscles. Although the timing can sometimes feel outdated, the violent guitar riffs and electronic insanity makes it a highly enjoyable album for all rockers.

Grade: B —Jacob Gaitan II is currently available.

Thundercat The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder) Stephen Bruner, the South Los Angeles native also known as Thundercat, has been a member of the shortlived German boy band No Curfew and played on stage or in the studio with everyone from Snoop Dogg to bassist Stanley Clarke. He’s currently the bass player for Suicidal Tendencies. Perusing Thundercat’s extensive resume doesn’t give a clue though as to what to expect from The Golden Age of Apocalypse, which turns out to be an amalgam that includes elements of chill-out and experimental, fusion jazz and space-out.

“Daylight” effervesces like an aural mimosa, as Thundercat greets the morn with a flutter of bright synth notes and a bed of lush harmony vocals cooing, “daylight…,” all the while trying to shake off the remnants of the night, represented here by a funky repeating riff that fades as the song progresses. A cover of George Duke’s “For Love I Come” shows how much Thundercat’s work is informed by fusion jazz while also demonstrating that this cat has a mind of his own as he performs the song like he’s in a state of suspended animation, still lucid enough though to insert a few licks that sound like George playing on his ‘Dukey Stick.’

“It Really Doesn’t Matter to You” finds T-Cat whacking out a crazy beat on cymbals, and “Jamboree” is powered by funky keyboards, but mostly The Golden Age of Apocalypse is not meant to get you grooving too seriously; this is sublime music made for the head.

Grade: A —Kevin Wierzbicki The Golden Age of Apocalypse is currently available.

Tinariwen Tassili (Anti-) Whether performed entirely on traditional instruments or, in the case of Tinariwen, with acoustic guitar accompaniment, the music of the Touareg people of Algeria is one of the most recognizable sounds emanating from North Africa. It’s one of the most popular styles of world music right now too, ironic since the nomadic Touareg – after enduring decades of war, drought and isolation – are watching their culture slowly disappear as if being swallowed up by the sands of the

Sahara in which they live.

Most of the vocals here are sung in the Touareg dialect of Tamashek so you’ll likely not understand a word, but you will understand the emotion; “Imidiwan Ma Tennam” and “Asuf D Alwa” convey a very deep sadness. It is a testament to the group’s ability that “Asuf D Alwa,” despite being nearly funereal in tone, has a chorus that calls for a phonetic singalong. “Tenere Taqqim Tossam” on the other hand is a joyous love song set to an arrangement that recalls Peter Gabriel’s employment of African sounds; the song again is sung mostly in Tamashek save for a telling line in English, “Oh Tenere, you are the treasure of my soul….”

Nels Cline of Wilco provides some of the delicate acoustic guitar work found throughout and members of TV on the Radio and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band also appear, but the Western players honor this African music; their presence is never a distraction.

Tinariwen perform Sept. 30 at OohLaLA Festival at the El Rey. Grade: A —Kevin Wierzbicki Tassili is currently available.

Zee Avi Ghostbird (Brushfire) Zee Avi is a native of Sarawak, Malaysia, but she lives in Brooklyn now and that’s primarily where this album of sublime, airy pop music was created. Avi does not sing with an accent nor does she incorporate traditional Malaysian music into her songs, but her use of ukulele in “Swell Window,” “Anchor” and a couple of other songs could give the listener the impression that her heritage is Hawaiian.

Even “Siboh Kitak Nangis,” the only song here sung in Avi’s native language, could be with the most casual of listens mistaken for being sung in Portuguese since it is arranged as a Brazilian samba.

Avi’s voice is similar to Cat Power’s, just a little bit on the sweeter side, and she’s chosen not to get too exotic with any of her instrumentation, allowing songs like the simplyarranged “Bag of Gold” to highlight her clear-as-a-bell intonation. A light reggae lilt is the order of the day for “Roll Your Head in the Sun,” but “Madness” is a bit of a departure from the chilled-out bulk of Ghostbird; Avi shows on the swinging jazz number that she would make a great cabaret singer.

Everything here is self-penned, making Avi’s sophomore release all the more impressive, and for extra fun she has incorporated a treasure hunt in the set. While you’re being soothed by her delicate vocals, see if you can spot the owl calls (the ‘ghostbird’) inserted throughout.

Grade: A —Kevin Wierzbicki Ghostbird is currently available.

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‘SOmebody google it!’ Justin Pierre embarrassingly asks the crowd as he forgets the lyrics, and the band comes to a halt about 30 seconds into “Hysteria.”

A few moments of more nervous chuckles and cheers from fans, someone finally hands him a phone with the correct lyrics. “Pretend that never happened!” Pierre exclaims. It’s a roaring evening at the House of Blues Sunset Strip – the second installment of a two-night event that kicks off their 4 Albums. 2 Nights. 7 Cities. tour. Even though Motion City Soundtrack has been active since 1997, the band never lost its youthful energy, holding onto their loyal fan base since their first full-length release in 2002.

“We’ve been through a lot as a band together – being on tour and being through all the troubles trying to make it,” says guitarist Joshua Cain. “Anything that ever happened that would make us break up as a band, we got through those things. We like the music that we make, and that’s what makes us stick it out.”

Pierre’s openness about his struggles only adds to the vocalist’s charismatic stage presence. He shares with the crowd, “I used to drink a lot, [but] I don’t anymore. I spent sometime in an institution, and it was really crazy. I was only in there for three days. They force you to go outside and be with people. There were these caterpillars, and I was standing under this tree. Suddenly there’s a plop, and then plop, plop, plop … I was freaking out, and suddenly there were just bugs everywhere. I’ve read books and seen them in movies, they’re delirium tremens. So that song became ‘Delirium’ – true story.”

The crowd erupts in cheers. With a fan base as devoted as this, their fifth effort will surely be met with stellar enthusiasm. Although there’s no official name or release date yet, Cain reveals one thing about their upcoming album. “It isn’t more acoustic-y, but it has a lot more acoustic guitar. The record spans all the stuff we’ve kind of done. It might be a little more grown up for us? Or maybe not.”

For more information, visit motioncitysoundtrack.com.

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308 N. Stanley Ave., Los Angeles by kristina bravo Less than a minute away from the Grove, stomping grounds of Mario Lopez fans and tourists getting off from the Starline tour bus, is a sweet, unassuming little taco shop called Escuela Taqueria. Located on the easy-tomiss residential Stanley Avenue, this street-style taco shop is only a few months old, opening its glass door to perpetually Mexican-food-hungry locals in June. But as any average L.A. resident would ask, mysophobia brushed to the side, why pay restaurant prices for tacos if you could have delicious, albeit questionable but-isn’t-that-part-of-the-fun meat enveloped in warm tortilla from food trucks that occupy every other street corner?

One obvious perk of going to a Mexican restaurant is the restaurant itself. Don’t want to eat outside, standing while breathing the less-than-appetizing L.A. breeze?

Escuela Taqueria has about eight tables in its warm, inviting interior. Creating an eccentric atmosphere are the varied art covering the walls that range from an Obey poster to Jesus Christ drawings, ninja stars and an almost-obscene nude female sketch. Even the ceiling wasn’t left untouched – it’s

Campus Circle > Culture > Food furnished with hanging vintage, wooden chairs, giving off a Harry Potter or Alice in Wonderland movie set vibe. And as you marvel at the small, but interesting taqueria, your ears are serenaded by Oasis and the Strokes on speakers – a definite plus considering too many restaurants seem to just settle for elevator music. If you want a more communal dining experience, however, there are about seven tables pushed side-by-side right outside on the sidewalk, where you can eat with a large group of friends or maybe even converse with other diners. Stanley Avenue is a small street, so you don’t have to worry too much about inhaling smog from vehicular passer-bys with your food.

Escuela Taqueria has eight types of tacos on the menu, all priced from six to eight dollars. Each order gets you two, which are comparatively smaller than what you get everywhere else. The big question is: Do the smaller portion sizes justify the price? The expense is immediately made a little more digestible by the free chips and salsa. The chips are part crispy and part chewy, fresh from the deep fryer. The salsa comes in a small glass container, perfect for holding all that tangy flavor.

Now on to the tacos – the high quality meat of the house marinated carne asada is rich and savory, complemented by creamy avocado and fresh-cut cilantro and onion. The tortillas, considering the amazing freshness of the chips, aren’t as memorable. But lacking the grease of your run-ofthe-mill food truck taco and the blandness of many dialed down Mexican restaurant meals, Escuela Taqueria’s prime ingredients and deep flavor in their carne asada taco are indeed impressive. The chicken, on the other hand, is even better, marinated in Achiote-infused lime juice, giving the taco the zest that complements its crave-worthy smokey charred taste.

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It’s Shagadelic, Baby! by kevin wierzbicki So you think you’re pretty good at shag– ging, do you? So good, maybe, that you belong in the Shagger’s Hall of Fame? You probably even think that your name should be etched onto a commemorative plaque and embedded in the sidewalk somewhere along the Shagger’s Walk of Fame. Wow, you must really be a good dancer!

The shag, also known as the Carolina shag, is a dance mostly peculiar to the beach communities of the Carolinas that is thought to have originated in or near Myrtle Beach, S.C., and that’s where you want to go to show off your moves. Places like Fat Harold’s Beach Club and Duck’s Beach Club, both in North Myrtle Beach, are shagging hotspots where dancers burn up the floor to DJ’d cuts or live music played by local favorites like the Carolina Breakers.

These are great places to learn the dance too; sometimes there’s a competition going on for the experts, but otherwise shag dancers are very friendly and willing to show you the steps, and if you can dance to popular oldies like Rod Stewart’s “Hot Legs” and “My Girl” by the Temptations or R&B numbers like B.B. King’s “Lucille” or “Don’t Mess With My Man” by Irma Thomas then you should be able to pick up the shag with just a little practice.

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add some crunch and even more punch. Escuela Taqueria’s pescetarianfriendly options (it is Los Angeles, but seafood is appreciated all around) are even more remarkable.

The shrimp is refreshing and scrumptious, comple– mented with the spice of peppery red mojo and the flavorful saltiness of chorizo. However the best, hands down, is the fish taco. A perfectly seasoned chunk of grilled branzino with its crispy skin left on is laid on a bed of cabbage slaw swimming in chipotle creme fraiche. With juicy goodness dripping as you bite into the sea bass taco, it is the messiest to eat out of the four – a definite sign of culinary greatness.

As for drinks, it is BYOB, but they do have some nonalcoholic options. The fresh-fruit-infused agua frescas can’t be anymore perfect with the tacos; they can even stand by themselves to refresh parched throats on a warm, summer night. The cantaloupe kind, which I opted for, is just the right amount of sweet and tart.

Escuela Taqueria definitely delivers in taste and freshness of ingredients, and with the unique decor and its warm, inviting ambience, the prices will almost always be justifiable (not on days when you just want an indecent amount of food in you, which you know, happens). Service still has its hitsand-misses, but let’s save that for a disgruntled Yelp! review.

Overall, Escuela Taqueria is worth it – on most days.

For more information, call (323) 939-8226.

Campus Circle > Culture > Travel The dance is not a fad – it’s been around for decades – and there really is a Shagger’s Hall of Fame. Dance contest memorabilia and awards and trophies are a big part of beach club décor in North Myrtle, and between Duck’s and Fat Harold’s, which are right across the street from one another, is where you’ll find the Shagger’s Walk of Fame. Remember not to shag all night; you’ll need to save some energy for the rest of the fun in Myrtle Beach!

Most of the attractions in Myrtle Beach are along or just off of “The Grand Strand,” a lengthy stretch of road that runs parallel to the beach. Myrtle is famous for its long-long-long beach and you’ll have no problem finding a place to play in the sand and take a dip in the Atlantic.

All of the beach activities you can imagine await here as well as some things you wouldn’t expect, like the Sun Cruz Aquasino. The Aquasino is a casino-at-sea that sails twice a day (only once on Monday) from the Little River Waterfront, offering passengers a chance to try their hands at blackjack, craps, roulette, slot machines and more. All cruises are five hours, and if you take the morning sailing you’ll get to see some great scenery while you try to pad your wallet. This is an inexpensive activity for the budget-minded too as the cruise only costs $20.

Myrtle Beach is also known for evening entertainment, and one of the most popular shows is Le Grand Cirque’s “Adrenaline;” a dazzling Cirque du Soleil-style show full of stunts and acrobatics performed by colorfully-costumed characters. “Adrenaline” takes place at the Palace Theatre where they also have song-and-dance shows like Hooray for Hollywood and The Magical Spirit of Ireland.

The Carolina Opry is another large theater that puts on tons of shows including the rock music showcase the Good Vibrations Show. For a campy good time check out Pirates

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The Shaggers Walk of Fame in Myrtle Beach Voyage, a brand new show featuring a “buccaneer battle” that just opened in June (and is owned by Dolly Parton) or the Medieval Times dinner and tournament show where armorclad knights do battle on horseback.

Ripley’s Aquarium is another Myrtle Beach favorite and rightfully so; the sights you can see (like 12-foot sharks) while walking through the aquarium’s acrylic tunnel where you’re actually inside the fish tank are breathtaking. Ripley’s has plenty of hands-on fun too; if you’ve ever wanted to pet a stingray this is the place to do it.

Lastly, there’s one more thing that’s a Myrtle Beach tradition, and it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’re going to like it. I’m talking about the Giant Crab restaurant, the legendary all-you-care-to-eat buffet joint where they always have at least 170 items ready to munch. It’s easy to get carried away at the Giant Crab but try and pace yourself, especially if you have an evening of shagging planned afterwards.

The sixth annual Beach Boogie & BBQ Festival takes place in Myrtle Beach Sept. 2-4. For more information, visit visitmyrtlebeach.com.

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“Stones in His Pockets” Now-Sept. 17 @ The Zephyr Theatre Lady luck seemed to smile upon a pair of naïve simpletons, Jake and Charlie, when a big-budget Hollywood film takes their small village in County Kerry, Ireland, by storm. Offered the chance of a lifetime, working as extras, these two are about ready for that close-up with all the glamour Hollywood has to offer, in the Award-winning play, “Stones in His Pockets.” Actors Andrew Friedman (Charlie) and Jerry Richardson (Jake), juggle 15 other characters, aside from the protagonists; no one is to foresee who they will become next. Charlie dreams of seeing his script come alive on the big screen. On the other hand, Jake desires nothing more than to be a film star. Friedman metamorphoses between Caroline Giovanni, the starlet of the film, her bodyguard “The Heavy” and Simon, the director. Richardson shuffles to and from Mickey, one of the oldest surviving extras from The Quiet Man, to Aisling, the over-eager assistant director.

Full of laughs at the absurdity of being on set, Charlie and Jake get caught right in the middle. With Charlie going on a cocaine frenzy and Jake’s flirtation with Caroline, they unknowingly walk towards Hollywood’s path of disillusion. A dark, comical and touching play, “Stones in His Pockets” lacks a sense of direction. Too many times it switches back to minor characters that don’t move the story forward, not to mention it’s a bit overwhelming and disorienting of who’s who.

After a new appreciation of set design, the absence of color and life of the set may seem uninteresting and dull. However, it is the perfect realization of the metaphoric oppression of impoverished people led on by unattainable dreams.

—Nataly Chavez The Zephyr Theatre is located at 7456 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. For more information, visit plays411.net/stones.

“Treat Yourself Like Cary Grant” Now-Sept. 18 @ The Elephant Lillian Theatre

With direction from veteran playwright Rick Pagano and a seasoned cast that boasts a long list of television credits, “Treat Yourself Like Cary Grant” began its run at the Lillian Theater with an unexpectedly lackluster performance. Low in energy and fumbling with minor technical mishaps, it seemed as though the cast and crew were still working out a few kinks in this very new show.

Leads Erin Carufel as Roberta Farraday and Kim Estes as Thomas Kitay made a valiant effort to collectively grapple with the multidimensional struggles their characters presented. The script is very cerebral, and their separate conflicts present the potential for a great deal of mixed emotions. As a result, there is much that is lost in the barrage of sudden mood swings, unresolved questions and blatant references to the films of Cary Grant.

As an homage to the work of Cary Grant, the show pays due tribute to the Hollywood legend, even though the message is completely overstressed in the play’s epilogue. Throughout the course of the show, relevant clips from collected Cary Grant movies are projected on the stage in between scenes. It is an effective tool for developing plot and creating nostalgia, but the projector was positioned directly on an open doorway, used to represent Kitay’s prison cell. Despite the thematic relevance of the projector’s placement, the open door completely destroyed the black and white images, leaving the audience to stretch their eyes and imaginations around a three dimensional blob of classic cinema.

Opening night jitters aside, “Treat Yourself Like Cary Grant” bears the potential to develop into impressive show by the end of its run at the Lillian Theater in Hollywood. A detailed story with a refreshingly simple message, the entire production possesses the ability to develop into a head turning experience, regardless of the aspects of the show that clearly require some “smoothing out.”

—Patrick Meissner The Elephant Lillian Theatre is located at 6322 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. For more information, visit plays411.net/carygrant.

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Antonio’s will celebrate the holiday on the 16th of September, which is the day that Mexico celebrates their independence.

There will be a special menu with the traditional dish of Chiles En Nogada representing the colors of the flag. Also there will Beef tamales and Carnitas, the leg of pork in red a Chile sauce, spicy and delicious!

There will be goodies and music for the celebration. Enjoy the special tequila drinks, and make your reservations!

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In Dog Days of Summer by dov rudnick Under the pitiless sun of late August last weekend the Dodgers made what appeared to be a final stand for contention in the pennant race. Facing the Colorado Rockies, rivals for third place in the National League West, the Dodgers took two out of three games in a surprisingly exciting series for a couple of teams whose chances for postseason play are slim to none.

In the first two games the Dodgers mounted impressive comebacks, each within the bottom sixth inning and each had bizarre instances. On Friday’s game the Rockies’ pitcher, Esmil Rogers, was throwing a gem before the bases were loaded in the sixth with two outs. Aaron Miles (aka “the Little Guy”) faked trying to steal home just well enough to force a balk. It was downhill from there as the Dodgers pummeled the Rockies for an additional five runs in the inning, all they would need to win that day by a score of 6-1.

Saturday’s game offered more dramatics as the Dodgers – down by four going into the sixth inning – rallied for five runs. The lead was short lived, however, as the Rockies came

back with two atop the seventh. It wasn’t until the bottom of the ninth that the Dodgers would tie with James Loney’s homerun to send the game into extras. Matt Kemp would go on to put the exclamation point on the 7-6 win with his 11thinning walk-off homer, his third game-winning homerun of the season.

After winning their fifth in a row Saturday in such dramatic fashion, imaginations were fired up and “what ifs” were entertained. What if the Dodgers went on to win all of their remaining games? They would end the year with 93 wins, very likely enough to make the playoffs, if not win the division. Of course, it has never been done in baseball history. But who knows, maybe this is the year?

The brief lives of the “what ifs” and “maybes” seemed to wilt under the blazing sun on Sunday as the Dodgers watched their luck run out, dropping the final game to the Rockies by a score of 7-6. The Rockies took charge early, scoring five runs in the first off of 21-year-old rookie Nathan Eovaldi.

They were hits that seemed just barely out of reach of Dodger fielders. Outfielders Tony Gwynn and Trent Oeltjen lost balls by inches, and a fumbled relay play to starting pitcher Eovaldi prolonged the inning. The official scorer ruled it a hit, but a more experienced pitcher would likely have made the play. The Dodgers struggled valiantly just enough to fall short a run and bring the team tumbling back to reality.

Faced with the prospect of playing “meaningless” games in September, the old existential questions arise once more.

Just what is the meaning and purpose of Dodger baseball in Los Angeles in an age of franchise bankruptcy? Ah, but before we descend bitterly in despair there is good news to report. Both Dodger Hall of Fame announcers Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin announced this weekend that they will be returning next year to call the games. The announcements

Matt Kemp garnered his third game-winning homerun of the season on Saturday. are a reprieve against the depressing sensation that all the spirit and soul of the organization is being drained out. For over half a century, Angelenos have been blessed by their cool and articulate voices. They share a reverence and enthusiasm for the game and have helped give the Dodger organization a classiness that once defined the franchise. So at least for another year the old Dodger fans, English and Spanish speaking alike, can continue to get their fix.

The big question, however, is if the Dodgers will field a team worthy of contention. On that score, there is little to be hopeful about as the mounting debts of owner Frank McCourt pile ever higher. With the decline of ticket and concession sales, the latest estimates put the loss of revenue as high as 30 million. The Dodgers will need more than just financial capital; they need a boost in morale. In the meantime, the precious days of September dwindle down.

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Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens: A Couch Surfer’s Memoir of Venezuela

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After winning their opening game of CONCACAF Champions League play over Motagua, the Galaxy continued their dominance with a 2-0 victory over visiting Alajuelense at the Home Depot Center Aug. 25.

“We played well tonight. Not an easy game; different kind of game probably than we are used to,” Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena says. “Overall we are real pleased with the win.

This is going to be a tough competition until the end.”

Only about 10,000 fans attended the match, but the Galaxy now have six points in group play of the competition that features teams from the United States, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, among others. Los Angeles is 2-0-0 in Group A. “It was important that we won tonight. We said it at the start of our group: We need to win our home games. Tonight was a tough game,” midfielder David Beckham states.

Just before the first half ended, defender Omar Gonzalez netted his first score of the tournament in the 38th minute. Beckham was credited with his second assist after Gonzalez penetrated the back of the net on a head off a corner kick. Striker Chad Barrett sealed the win for hosts at 77th minute mark, when he tapped in a cross from defender Sean Franklin. Franklin received the assist.

“We made the plays we needed to win the game, and at the end of all of it we have six points from our first two homes games and a little time to rest. It’s a perfect night for us,” comments midfielder Landon Donovan.

Los Angeles returns to MLS action on Labor Day, Sept. 5, at Sporting Kansas City for a 3 p.m. kickoff.

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(Skyhorse) Jamie Maslin is a British travel writer who loves to get immersed in a particular country’s culture in the most down to earth way, by “couch surfing,” which means that instead of shelling out for hotels he crashes on the couches of locals who are willing to have him.

Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens docu– ments his couch surfing exploits in Venezuela where, in Caracas on his second day in country, he is detained by police because he could not produce his passport, having left it in the apartment of the man he was staying with. The cops used various methods of intimidation on Maslin, trying to get him to bribe his way out of the situation and even at one point threatened to slit his throat.

Eventually Maslin’s local host brought the passport to the police station, and Maslin was released to further explore the dangerous city on foot and by bus, often getting turned around and finding adventure where he least expected it.

Maslin marvels at how every woman in the plastic surgery-happy country seems to have had a boob job and reveals that the ubiquitous endowments are even customary gifts for young ladies celebrating their quinceanera. And with Venezuela being run by the colorful Hugo Chavez, politics are discussed throughout Maslin’s trek and a rather lengthy chapter is devoted to an explanation of how Chavez came to power and just exactly who likes him and who doesn’t and why.

That portion of the book is a bit serious, but for the most part, Maslin has produced a real page-turner here as he brings to vivid life everything from his time crashing in a reeking house overrun by a dozen cats to witnessing the rare natural phenomenon called Catatumbo lightning to visiting the country’s famous Angel Falls, all with an eye for quirky detail and a liberal dose of humor Grade: A —Kevin Wierzbicki Socialist Dreams and Beauty Queens is currently available.

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SUNDAYSEPT. 4 Bare Bowling 2011

fathomevents.com Brian De Palma’s classic with Al Pacino at his overactiest best and a relatively unknown Michelle Pfeiffer will be shown with the debut of an exclusive featurette showcasing the pop-culture phenomenon that redefined the gangster genre in 27 L.A. area theaters. 7:30 p.m.

pawfoundation.org Whoever said that bowling and porn don’t mix? So polish those balls and get ready to bowl with dozens of XXX actresses to raise money for PAW (Protecting Adult Welfare). For ticket information, e-mail bmargold@aol.com. You will be notified of the time and location when your tickets are sent. $40, $60 if you take a video camera.

THURSDAYSEPT. 1 Perez Hilton Barnes & Noble, 189 The Grove Drive, Los Angeles; barnesandnoble.com The celebrity blogger signs his book, The Boy with the Pink Hair. 7 p.m.

FRIDAYSEPT. 2 Steven Spielberg Double Feature Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica; americancinematheque.com Two of his biggest hits: E.T.: The ExtraTerrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 7:30 p.m. $11, $9 w/student ID.

FRIDAYSEPT. 2 The Taste events.latimes.com/taste This festival will celebrate all things epicurean in all of Los Angeles with everything from local restaurant tastings and live cooking demonstrations from world-renowned chefs like Giada De Laurentiis, Susan Feniger, Roy Choi and Duff Goldman to a series of wine seminars from top vintners and live musical performances from award-winning artists.

Runs through Monday in Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Downtown.

SATURDAYSEPT. 3 Annual West Hollywood Bartender Auction The Abbey, 692 N. Robertson, West Hollywood; facebook.com/event. php?eid=236710386365912 Come out and bid on West Hollywood’s hottest bartenders to be your date for Glamorama. You and your date(s) will travel in style to the hottest fashion event of the year with a special tribute to Elizabeth Taylor by Magic Johnson and Pauley Perrette. Benefits APLA (AIDS Project Los Angeles). 4 p.m.-6 p.m.

MONDAYSEPT. 5 Labor Day Yacht Party: MiniCruise & BBQ Fantasy Yacht One, 13509 Fiji Way, Marinia del Rey; wantickets.com Four decks of DJs, karaoke, foosball, ping pong, barbecue, cabanas, bottle service, VIP tables and more. 2 p.m.-8 p.m.

Tix start @ $40 but go up as the event gets closer.

TUESDAYSEPT. 6 PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Party: CBS Paley Center for Media, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills; paleycenter.org “Person of Interest” (with “Lost”’s Michael Emerson and J.J. Abrams), “A Gifted Man” (with Patrick Wilson) and “How to be a Gentleman” (with “Entourage”’s Kevin Dillon) will be some of the shows previewed with screenings and celebrity panels. 6 p.m.

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Up until this spring, my closet was full of white, gray and black ensembles that were practical but tortuously boring. Then with the neon color craze came the “buy everything bright” phase, which contributed to adding random bursts of yellows, oranges and corals to my previously drab wardrobe. Now that fall is slowly approaching, I’m starting to wonder whether I will continue to wear brights as if it’s still summer or return to my cold weather staples – but then I thought, why can’t I combine both? Apparently the designers were thinking along the same lines while creating their resort collections, as seen in the following pictures. So here they are: three different fallappropriate ways of wearing yellow, the hottest color of the season, for those of you who also got bitten by the color bug.

Neutrals + Yellow Full-on yellow dresses might have been appropriate on the beach or at a barbecue party, but chilly weather and the cloudy sky don’t exactly welcome such a sunny outfit. Thus, the most important thing in wearing yellow is determining what the right amount is. Think of it like making a salad: you mix different kinds of greens – lettuce, cucumbers, avocado – and sprinkle tomato cubes to add some color.

Different kinds of neutrals such as white, tan or gray will act as your base colors while a little splash of yellow will brighten up the look. Pick an item with a yellow accent and layer it with your neutral favorites.

Print + Yellow Nothing looks cuter than a light summer dress with huge floral prints, but such breezy beachwear can be frowned upon after Labor Day. How do you continue the whole print trend through fall, you may ask? By switching to microprints, of course. This microprint outfit from Suno includes little dots of yellow in addition to fall-appropriate hues like white, lavender and blue. Don’t be afraid to mix and match prints; just make sure it doesn’t turn into a mismatch from pairing wrong colors or unflattering silhouettes.

TUESDAYSEPT. 6 Scream Trilogy Dark Delicacies, 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank; darkdel.com Writer/director Ryan Turek, producer Anthony Masi and others to be announced will be signing Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective which is included in the Scream Trilogy Box Set now out on Blu-ray. 7 p.m.

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Military + Yellow Because of the military trend that took over the entire nation last fall, my closet still contains an unnecessary amount of militaryinspired jackets and heavy walkers. Thankfully, yellow happens to be the color that perfectly compliments the tough-looking khaki from military staples with its warm, bright vibe.

Throw on a military jacket on top of your yellow dress, and in an instant, you have an outfit that strikes the perfect balance between masculine and feminine.

Courtesy of Cynthia Rowley; style.com

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Purchase by

+50% off non-holiday tickets to Sierra at Tahoe

ANYTIME

S E AS O N PAS S AUG. 26TH – OCT. 31ST or until sold out!

SALE

Adult anytime season pass good any day or night during the ‘11/’12 season.

Regularly $699. Pays for itself in just 5 visits.

Children’s passes available as well.

No restrictions.

mthigh.com / 888-754-7878 2011/2012 50ft Air Bag / Zaugg Pipe Cutter / New Bison X Park Cat / State-OfThe-Art Rental System / Increased snowmaking / FREE App for iPhone and Android / Track days ridden, runs per day, vertical feet, and more.

$349 for the first 5,000 sold. $399 for the second 5,000 sold.

B E N E F I TS I N C LU D E

10% Off non-sale retail items. $10 Off Adult ski and snowboard lessons.

Valid at the North Pole Tubing Park.

Guaranteed admittance during a sell out. $20 Off weekday NAVITAT Zip Line Tours. Through November 30th, 2011, and then again after April 1, 2012.

Order online at mthigh.com (credit card required)

or call the resort directly at (888) 754-7878.

*$10 processing fee applied to ALL new passes.

Existing pass holders: Save the $10 when you reactivate your current Season Pass.