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South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is one of global cinema’s most consistently interesting directors — his films are typically blockbuster-style entertainments told with supreme visual flair yet always housing deeper layers of social commentary underneath. This is a delicate balancing act for…

It’s Halloween 2019 and the subscription model for web-based content distribution is king. Given that you, as a citizen of the world, are extremely likely to be subscribed to at least one of the two streaming behemoths, Netflix or Amazon Prime,…

Against the illuminated blue backdrop of the main theater at the Barbara Mertes Center for the Arts, Las Positas College English professor Steve Budd sauntered back-and-forth across the stage, embodying at least 12 different characters, some in conversation with each other, and…

An officially recognized sub-genre, defined by the Watching Staff at the New York Times as “character-driven films [that] are all talk and no action,” the “hangout movie” is a grand cinematic tradition— representing such classics as Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” Richard Linklater’s immortal “Dazed and Confused” and…

From the streets of New Orleans, to the clubs of Chicago, to the halls of the Barbara Mertes Center of Las Positas, jazz music is known for saving itself by constantly changing. It’s lasted for decades while still constantly evolving, preserving the…

Emily Forschen @Emilyschen A prayer is spoken as the lights are still down, as the show begins. The unnamed narrator of “The Drowsy Chaperone” explains to the audience what he prays as he enters a theater. He asks, begs, even implores God to not let…

When student Taylor Hendricks runs through the song and dance number “Accident Waiting to Happen” for the upcoming spring musical, the show calls for it to be done while wearing a pair of roller skates. “Break a leg” seems to be a…

Elizabeth Joy @ELIZABE53603091 Walking into the Black Box Theater, one is immediately in a time warp. The stage is so impressive, simply and authentically designed, it transports you instantaneously into the early twentieth century. As the actors come on to the stage, their costumes…

REVIEW By Jeremy Julian @faithfulmantis It’s about time that Marvel finally gets the Telltale Games treatment. After the success of Batman, it left fans with the yearning to have more superhero games made by the developer. Enter “Guardians of The Galaxy: A Telltale…

By Gabriel Crosetti @GABECROSETTI We’re not even three months into 2017, and yet it feels like a year’s worth of music has already been released. The website NME.com estimates that over 110 albums have already been unveiled by mainstream artists for public consumption…