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He’s been called “the most famous pop star you’ve never heard of,” but if last week’s back-to-back sold-out shows at the Fox Theater are any indication, that description may no longer be completely true. Belgian singer-songwriter Paul Van Haver, aka Stromae — from a French slang version of “maestro”— has
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It opens on a gray shot, with a cement shore forming the horizon between dark skies and cold water. Two men, shot from behind, stand far apart, looking like bookends in the frame. A boat approaches, and the men get in, beginning a journey across the channel and into the
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Nicholas Sparks writes only one kind of story: A beautiful young woman meets a handsome young man one fine summer in North Carolina. She pushes him away, he persists, they fall in love. They kiss in the rain, in the ocean or even in a pond, if they’re in a
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Jack O’Connell has a knack for choosing unglamourous roles. The British actor is known for his part as a misguided skinhead in “This Is England,” the explosively angry James Cook on the teen drama “Skins,” a violent inmate in “Starred Up” and POW Louis Zamperini in Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken.” In
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If the indie-pop scene were a high school movie, the Night Terrors of 1927 would be somewhere between the brooding, greasy-haired bad boy and the goth poet. Add in the life experiences of the English teacher with tellingly empty ear piercings, and Jarrod Gorbel and Blake Sennett’s collaborative project evokes
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SF Sketchfest, San Francisco’s premiere comedy extravaganza, ended it’s 14th run on Feb. 8. But if you missed all the crazy, slapstick and just plain “out there” performances, you can read The Daily Californian’s highlights! Here are some of our favorite events from this year’s festival. “Groundhog Day” on Groundhog
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If all the world’s a stage, what are all the men and women to do when they can no longer remember their lines? Such is the dilemma facing Simon Axler (Al Pacino), an aging thespian struggling to maintain his career as the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred.
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For some, it feels like a brick pressing down on your chest while you’re trying to move through water. For others, it’s that achy, sedated feeling that settles into your limbs and muffles your thoughts and heartbeat. For Signe Baumane, depression feels like the prick of a needle just below
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AER On what Influences their sound: Carter Schultz: That fresh 2000s hip hop with the ’90s hip hop, but it comes from all over the place On the albums that made the biggest impacts on them: CS: I’d probably say A Kid Named Cudi by Kid Cudi. Thats not early
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Fans of the Colbert Report should be quite familiar with the name Edan Lepucki, whose debut novel, “California,” has been mentioned on air three times in regard to the talk show host’s war against Amazon. Feud aside, Colbert could not have chosen a better book to champion. Lepucki’s contribution to
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