‘BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime’ season 5 heats up cold cases with signature sense of humor
The show’s co-hosts certainly aren’t doing anything resembling real detective work, but as the show’s title suggests, that’s really not the point.
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Author Archives: Grace Orriss
To infinity and beyond
But, I told myself, if Thor could handle having to battle the Hulk on a trash planet, I could handle UC Berkeley. And so I did. I closed out my mostly joyful, occasionally thorny freshman year at Cal, feeling like a newly-minted adult.
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‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at Aurora Theatre Company breathes new life into Oscar Wilde’s witticisms
When “The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People” first premiered in 1895, critic William Archer said in The World: “(The play) imitates nothing, represents nothing, is nothing, except a sort of rondo capriccioso, in which the artist’s fingers run with crisp irresponsibility up and down the
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Synergy Theater’s ‘Spontaneous Brothers Grimm: The Improvised Collection’ reimagines classic fairy tales
The fact that they’re able to pull it off and still have a great deal of fun with each other is a testament to the company members’ understanding of the art form and their great comfort with one another — necessary ingredients in any comedy troupe.
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Reel Talk episode 4: Avengers
Avengers assemble! In episode four of Reel Talk, Daily Cal arts and entertainment staffers Grace Orriss (a Marvel lover) and Jackson Murphy (a Marvel hater) rank all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films and talk about the road to Avengers: Endgame.
Magician Kevin Blake dazzles with one-man show ‘Magic Man’ at The Speakeasy
One imagines this is one of the things that makes a great magician — audiences must be charmed enough that they’re willing to be fooled.
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Bay Area muralist Juana Alicia Araiza discusses her work, social justice and accessibility
“(Murals) allow me to make my work a lot more public. So people don’t have to pay to purchase the work to go see it, they don’t have to pay to go to a museum, they don’t have to go to a gallery,” she said.
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‘Pet Sematary’ is scary enough to make you hate cats
For the most part, 2019’s “Pet Sematary” justifies its reincarnation with elevated performances and nausea-inducing visuals acting as the foundation for a film rooted in real-life horrors.
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‘Detective Comics’ #1000 is affecting anthology worthy of Batman’s legacy
While the 10 short stories of “Detective Comics” #1000 wildly vary in terms of style and content, they all aim to pay homage to Batman’s legacy. Impressively, none stick out as egregious weak links.
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Improv trio 3 FOR ALL lights up BATS with engaging, punchy comedy
The collection of disparate, short scenes allowed 3 FOR ALL to mine the most laughs possible from a simple premise before moving on to the next scene.
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