Mostly British festival’s films mostly brilliant
The Mostly British Film Festival, featuring entries primarily from the United Kingdom, runs from Feb. 13 to 20 at the Vogue Theater in San Francisco.
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Unsexy sex words: how not to seduce your Valentine
Strikeout, the copy desk’s blog, presents a list of unsexy sex words and how they came about.
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‘Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles’ looks at the violent truth in the struggle for acceptance
Truth. That’s all we are going to hear from Ron Currie Jr. — the character, not the author, a vague distinction made on the back cover of “Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles.” And though this line is blurry, the “truths” presented within the novel blur even more rapidly to the point
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Upside down over idioms
Just a thought: Does it bother anyone else that to be “up for” and “down for” something mean the same thing? From a couple of quick Google searches, it seems the former is more established as a proper English idiom (though, to be fair, I am defining “proper” as not
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Chinese food for thought
Somewhere on Shattuck Avenue, there is a sign that haunted me for nearly an entire summer. “CHINESE GOURMET FOOD,” it advertises. The phrase evokes the same feeling I get a couple of days before a midterm or when I’ve held in my pee so long that I’m at the point
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Play about Picasso is a portrayal in fragments
Paris, 1904. We are welcomed to the Lapin Agile by its bartender, Freddy (Doug Boyd), who greets a 25-year-old and clean-cut Albert Einstein shortly afterward. From the show’s program, we know Pablo Picasso, passionate artist by day and even more passionate womanizer by night, will eventually join him. The two
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‘Despicable Me 2’ fails to live up to its predecessor
Animated sequel proves lovable yet predictable
There are so many characteristics of “Despicable Me 2” that parallel its prequel that one almost expects the movie to be good at least for its familiarity. Once again, Gru must decide between good and evil when new characters arrive on the scene to steal his heart. This time, instead
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Author Ransom Riggs talks about his debut novel, ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’
If you want a word to sum up Ransom Riggs’ “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” look no further than its title. Peculiar: strange, odd or unusual. Although not quite revolutionary, the novel’s subtle, peculiar twists on the popular fantasy and young adult genres took readers by storm in 2011
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Student films receive awards, baffle viewers
Winning films prove to be as eccentric as they are meaningful
Chances are that most of us would love to be able to make a living expressing ourselves, whether through art, music, literature or film, and UC Berkeley time and again proves itself an institution that will give us that chance. The Roselyn Schneider Eisner Prizes in Film and Video, commonly
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SCORE program makes schools rock
Willard Middle School to offer students introductory music lessons, will focus on rock music
SCORE. The word can mean success. It can be the written copy of a musical composition. And starting April 12, the word will refer to the SCORE Berkeley program that is to engage students at Willard Middle School and — the program’s directors hope — enrich their lives. The concept
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