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COLLEGE FRESHMEN ARE KEEN ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, SURVEY SHOWS

BY TERESA WATANABE

LOS ANGELES TIMES (TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Today’s American college freshman is more recent wave of protests against police shootings of African- And 43 percent of those surveyed said colleges should have the liberal, less religious and increasingly committed to civic in- American men and student demonstrations against campus right to ban extreme speakers, up from 25 percent in 1971. volvement and political activism compared with those in pre- treatment of minorities at Claremont McKenna College and Eagan said he understood student concerns that deroga- vious generations, according to a national survey by research- Occidental College in Southern California, the University of tory speech could lead to violence or harm students. “At the ers at the University of California, Los Angeles. Missouri and elsewhere. same time, institutions need to make sure we aren’t insulating Nearly 60 percent of freshmen said they expected to vote Whether the enhanced political interest will affect the students from ideas that may be counter to their narratives,” sometime during their college years, and majorities supported presidential election this year is another matter. he said. same-sex marriage, abortion rights, affirmative action, legaliza- Although Barack Obama produced a record turnout of The proportion of students who did not affiliate with a tion of marijuana and equal pay for women. They also over- young voters in 2008 — and won the backing of 66 percent of religion grew to 29.5 percent, an all-time high since the survey whelmingly opposed U.S. involvement in other countries’ wars. those under 30 years old — young people still have the lowest began. Freshmen also continued to report that they studied “Collectively, the findings suggest that more students voting rates of any age group. more and partied less in their last year of high school than are committed to social justice,” said Kevin Eagan, director of “We certainly see students embracing more of the pro- previous classes. UCLA’s cooperative institutional research program, which has gressive perspectives,” Eagan said. “But will it actually translate For the first time, the survey asked students about their conducted the annual American Freshman survey for the last to action? sexual orientation and gender identity and found that those 50 years. “That may be why they are the most committed to po- “If they organize, protest and show up at the polls, they who described themselves as bisexual, gay, lesbian, queer or litical and civic engagement of any of the previous 49 classes.” may have a role in shaping the public discourse on issues re- “other” more frequently felt depressed and overwhelmed than The results released last week showed that one-third of lated to social inequality, equity and discrimination,” he said. the 93.2 percent of students who said they were heterosexual. those surveyed said they were “liberal” or “far left,” the highest “By contrast, if these students do not follow through on their The survey also asked questions about financial aid for proportion in four decades, while one-fifth described them- intentions and goals, the enthusiastic support we’re seeing for the first time. selves as “conservative” or “far right.” addressing social justice concerns will likely diminish, elimi- It found that more than a quarter of freshmen received But their attitudes were markedly different according to nating the potential for a broader impact in politics or Ameri- a federal Pell Grant — an annual award of up to $5,775 for race and ethnicity. can life.” low-income students — and they were disproportionately La- Although interest in political and civic activism has The researchers surveyed more than 141,000 first-time, tino and African-American. Those students worried far more grown among all students, African-American and Latino stu- full-time students who entered 199 four-year U.S. colleges and than others about their ability to pay for college and had to dents were far more likely than Asians and whites to expect to universities in 2015. scramble more to take out loans, find work-study jobs and seek participate in a campus demonstration. They were also more Despite their overall embrace of liberal views, today’s other ways to foot their educational bills. likely to believe it important to promote racial understanding freshmen are more likely to support restrictions on free speech The UCLA institute plans to release another analysis in and influence politics. — a trend that has led to controversial student movements to June that will provide more detail about how college freshmen For instance, only 6 percent of Asians planned to partici- disinvite commencement speakers, disrupt presentations by have changed over the 50 years of the surveys. pate in a protest or felt it important to influence politics, com- those with unpopular views and demand “trigger warnings” ——— pared with more than twice that share for African-Americans. before uttering potentially uncomfortable speech. ©2016 Los Angeles Times The UCLA researchers said the heightened interest in po- Support for banning racist and sexist speech on campus Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com litical activism could be the result of students witnessing the reached 70.9 percent in 2015, up from 58.9 percent in 1992. 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LOS ANGELES — Aspiring stars in Los Angeles used to measure Within that community, 8,600 creators have at least Ahmad said. success by the number of parts or auditions they snared. 250,000 subscribers (also known as “now you can quit your Bruce and Ahmad started building Epoxy while at Team Travel video-bloggers Damon Dominique and Joanna day job” level), 4,100 have a following of at least 500,000 and Downey and spun it out when they realized that there was Franco do it by brewing a pot of coffee in the morning, opening 1,800 have at least 1 million subscribers. demand for the software across the online video industry. their laptops and counting the number of new comments, Those at the top of the heap, such as Lilly Singh, Tyler In 2013, Epoxy raised $2 million in a seed round led by mentions and likes they tallied. Oakley and PewDiePie, command millions of dollars in Santa Monica’s Upfront Ventures. The following year, it raised The duo, known online as Damon and Jo, have attracted endorsements and brand campaigns. an additional $6.5 million in a Series A round led by Time advertisers by amassing more than 210,000 subscribers on “It’s a more crowded environment,” said Allison Stern, co- Warner Investments and Upfront Ventures. Included in that YouTube. That’s enough of a following to hopefully never have founder of Tubular Labs, which offers creators free software round was Downey Ventures. to walk dogs or deliver groceries again. to chart their influence. “I do think it’s definitely harder to Mark Suster, managing partner at Upfront Ventures, But maintaining that momentum won’t be easy. It takes a become a star today than before.” said Epoxy wasn’t a short-term bet. The rise of Netflix, Hulu, relentless pace of new content and round-the-clock tending of Creators compete with one another for eyeballs and YouTube and HBO’s streaming service signaled the end of a fans on social media. brand campaigns. Advertisers look for the top influencers in stranglehold on distribution by a handful of powerful media “When you get to a certain level it’s impossible to see every targeted markets. companies. That will eventually lead to a surge in demand for YouTube comment,” said Franco, a 23-year-old native of Rio That gave rise to an industry connecting advertisers to more content and the people needed to make it, he said. de Janeiro who grew up in Connecticut and moved to LA last creators led by startups such as Zefr, Famebit and OpenSlate. “We believe by capturing the most elusive part of the summer. “It’s easy to say, ‘I’m overwhelmed.’” Although Epoxy also wants to help the most established market — the creators — we become infinitely more valuable Without the means to hire a team of publicists, agents and creators maintain their social media empires, it largely helps to distributors who want access to talent,” Suster said. assistants, Dominique and Franco turned to software developed up-and-comers find their footing. When Epoxy officially released its publishing platform in by a LA startup called Epoxy to maximize their digital influence. The company was co-founded in 2012 by Stanford May 2014, it included an editing tool to tailor video for the The company’s tools bolster the art and science of Internet fame, graduates Juan Bruce and Jason Ahmad, who both have different social networks, a scheduling feature so that content giving so-called content creators, in the parlance of the digital backgrounds in design and engineering. could be posted strategically and a system to sort social media video world, a badly needed edge at a time when competition The idea came when Bruce served as head of digital at interactions so that creators could quickly respond. is fierce. Team Downey, a production company founded by actor The company released a mobile version of its software in Epoxy does this by merging Damon and Jo’s YouTube, Robert Downey Jr. and his wife, Susan. September and recently released a feature where, instead of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts, allowing them to Team Downey was making a Web series and asked Bruce replying to posts in text, users can do it with a short video clip. post new clips and pictures on any of those networks from one and Ahmad to research why some online videos prospered The company charges between $19 and $109 a month place. while others didn’t regardless of production value. Bruce and for access depending on the level of service desired. About 60 “I don’t have to have 7,000 tabs open anymore,” said Ahmad interviewed top YouTubers like Jenna Marbles and multi-channel networks, including Fullscreen, Maker Studios Dominique, a 24-year-old native of Fort Wayne, Ind., who Hannah Hart, ad agencies, Hollywood studios and multi- and AwesomenessTV, have purchased bulk subscriptions to became close friends with Franco at Pace University in New channel networks that were representing the biggest digital Epoxy. York. stars. Bruce declined to say whether the company was profitable Settings can also be toggled so that the pair are notified Using the Downey name helped open doors for the soon- and it’s unclear how many creators are using the software. The any time someone with a big social media following gives them to-be founders. When they were done, they were surprised by company will say only that its clients collectively capture about a shout-out — a golden opportunity to reach a wider audience what they discovered. 6 billion views on YouTube each month. For comparison, with a simple reply. “Winning in online video very often didn’t have anything Maker, a Disney-owned multi-channel network with stars such The emergence of companies like Epoxy underscores the to do with the video itself,” said Ahmad, now Epoxy’s chief as PewDiePie, attracts 10 billion views each month. breadth and sophistication of today’s YouTube and online video product officer. “It actually had more to do with all the activity For creators, many of those views are hard-won. ecosystem, which only recently was dismissed as a compendium surrounding community building.” “It’s a really hard, exhausting, fragmented life,” said Bruce, of cat videos rather than an alternative to traditional The way beauty vlogging star Michelle Phan explained it Epoxy’s chief executive. “But on the plus side for us, if you can entertainment. to them, you have to build an audience first by promoting a solve for that, you can win loyal users.” There are now 165,000 YouTube creators around the world new video on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram before you can ——— with followings of at least 10,000 subscribers, according to expect to rack up views on YouTube and elsewhere. ©2016 Los Angeles Times Tubular Labs, a Mountain View, Calif., digital video analytics “All these different networks support each other. 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A SCENE IN THE NEW TURKISH FILM “Sivas” shows a boy in Oscar for his best picture-winning 2014 film, “Birdman,” and in the jungle in search of divine cure — and turns it on its head, the cruel mountains of Anatolia peering through an old View- has been nominated this year for “The Revenant,” became a centering the action on a shaman-warrior named Karamakate Master at images of Lassie. It is a hushed, startling moment that sensation after his 2000 homegrown work “Amores Perros.” That who has lost all the members of his tribe. is at once a homage to American film and a comment by director film, which came out of a vibrant Mexican film community that “That’s what we Latin American filmmakers can do,” says Kaan Mujdeci on how Hollywood fantasy often translates in also produced Oscar-winning directors Alfonso Cuaron and Guerra. “The stories of the explorers have been told. What we strange and absurd ways to the lives and rhythms of distant Guillermo del Toro, was nominated for a foreign-language film can do is turn history on its head, give another perspective.” lands. Academy Award. “Lamb,” the debut feature by Ethiopian director Yared Hollywood has long been a powerful shaper of global But Hollywood’s balance of power could soon shift, or at Zeleke, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival last year as culture. Italian filmmakers have made westerns. The Turkish least teeter, as international directors concentrate on indigenous part of Un Certain Regard, tackled the question of landscape — film industry has reconceived “Rambo” as a zombie movie. And stories. an important issue for a country whose global image has been India’s Bollywood has produced a NASCAR flick: “Ta Ra Rum When the academy launched the foreign-language film largely defined by outsiders. Pum,” about a humble pit-crew man who becomes a famous category in 1956, it received eight submissions, all but two from “Films about Ethiopia are generally not shot in Ethiopia,” race car driver. European countries. By 1986, there were 32 submissions. For says Zeleke, who divides his time between Addis Ababa and New But increasingly films such as “Sivas” and other foreign- the 2015 Academy Awards ceremony, to be held Feb. 28, there York. “Angelina Jolie’s ‘Beyond Borders’ was shot in Namibia. language movies, including those nominated for this year’s are 81 — including contenders from Guatemala (its second There’s an Israeli film, ‘Live and Become,’ which has to do with Academy Awards, are chipping at the edges of American Oscar submission ever), Cambodia (the fourth) and Jordan and famine, and it was shot in Israel. In Ethiopia, we don’t have dominance. Talented directors and advances in digital Ethiopia (the third). desert like that. Therein lies the problem, you’re watching a film filmmaking are helping countries rarely associated with movie Countries that weren’t known for movies are now home to about Ethiopia, but you’re not looking at the country itself.” production to gain acclaim for turning out intriguing counter- production boomlets. Colombia in 1993 produced two domestic None of this suggests that Hollywood’s soft power will narratives to familiar themes. films that made it into local theaters. By 2014, that number had recede any time soon. The top-10-grossing films in Mexico in “It used to be that everyone was excited to see the new risen to 28, according to the country’s Ministry of Culture. 2014, a country with a respected, if not always prodigious film movie coming out of Italy, France, Spain or Germany. But now This year, Colombia earned its first foreign-language film industry, all hailed from the U.S. In Colombia, nine of the top you’re just as likely to see a film from Jordan or Peru that will Oscar nomination for “Embrace of the Serpent,” director Ciro 10 grossing films were from Hollywood, such as “Furious 7” and knock your socks off,” said Mark Johnson, head of the Academy Guerra’s hypnotic tale about the brutal effects of colonialism in “Jurassic World.” of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ foreign-language film the Amazon. There are exceptions: More than 60 percent of box office committee. “Amazing stuff is coming out of South America. Filmmakers in Chile, Argentina, Colombia are vibrant. There’s an excitement with young filmmakers.” “It used to be that everyone was excited to see the new movie coming To understand what’s fueling the boom, The Times spoke with a dozen foreign filmmakers at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January. They cited artistic influences as diverse as “Indiana Jones,” the sweeping beauty of out of Italy, France, Spain or Germany. But now you’re just as likely to Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and the moody minimalism of Iranian cinema. At a time when Hollywood has been criticized for a lack of diversity, international filmmakers are exploring see a film from Jordan or Peru that will knock your socks off…” war, famine, colonialism, the nature of god and the plight of indigenous peoples. But Hollywood remains the barometer, a soft-power “I remember seeing (Federico Fellini’s) ‘8 1/2’ on television receipts in South Korea and Japan come from domestic films; extension, critics say, of U.S. foreign policy and American at the age of 13,” says Guerra. “At the time, I knew that was what that figure rises to 90 percent in India, home to Bollywood, the capitalism. In 2015, the 20 top-grossing films globally came out I wanted to do. But in that era, wanting to be a filmmaker in well-oiled, long-running filmmaking industry that produces of or were in some way connected to U.S. studios — including Colombia was like wanting to be an astronaut. I’d say that in the hundreds of films every year, many of them dazzling song-and- “Jurassic World,” “Cinderella” and “Mad Max: Fury Road.” last 10 years that has changed. It has started to grow. There is dance spectacles. Hollywood increasingly depends on it: 73 percent of its ticket government support.” Questions also arise over how Hollywood will navigate sales come from international markets, up from 66 percent in The country now has at least half a dozen film programs at countries such as Russia, which has increasingly strained 2010. universities around the country. And in 2010, it opened its first diplomatic ties with Washington, and China, which is fiercely Filmmakers such as Bosnia and Herzegovina auteur Ines dedicated film school, the Escuela Nacional de Cine (National protective of its own movie industry — setting quotas on how Tanovic, who directed “Our Everyday Life,” about a family School of Cinema, known as ENACC), in Bogota. It has accepted many foreign films can be screened in the country. adjusting in the aftermath of the Bosnian war, said: “I cannot an estimated 350 students per year. “There’s less cooperation and more disagreements and work as if Hollywood doesn’t exist. We all refer to Hollywood. Even nations with well-developed film industries have conflicts,” said Icelandic director Grimur Hakonarson, whose Maybe we want to do the opposite of Hollywood, but it’s still seen growth. Between 1990 and 2007, Turkey produced roughly critically acclaimed film “Rams” centers on two eccentric, there.” 40 films a year. In 2015, that number reached a peak of 134, estranged brothers and their sheep. “It’s a little like going back Jayro Bustamante, the Guatemalan director of the award- according to Antrakt, a local film research and marketing to the Cold War. Maybe American cultural dominance will fade winning “Ixcanul,” about the life of a Maya girl in the highlands, company. Of the country’s top-10-grossing films in 2015, only with changes in global politics.” agrees: “It’s a total influence. There’s an Estadounisamiento three hailed from U.S. studios. At No. 1 was a comedy titled International directors may not have the power to instigate (United States-ification) of Guatemalan society. We are “Dugun Dernek 2: Sunnet” — “Unconventional Wedding 2: their own cultural shifts. But many like Indian director Raam interested in having large cars even though we don’t have the Circumcision.” Reddy see a start. Last year, Reddy, who feels the influence of roads for them. We have malls but not the money to spend at Digital filmmaking has had a transformational effect on Bollywood and Hollywood, co-wrote and directed “Thithi,” them.” some countries — especially nontraditional locations such a dramedy that has no songs, a cast of amateurs, and an The phenomenon led one French writer in the early ‘90s as remote Ethiopian villages and unnavigable corners of the intergenerational story line that revolves around the death of a to coin the verb jurassiquer, from Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Amazon. trash-talking elder named Century Gowda. Reddy saved a lot by Park,” to describe how Hollywood can appear to obliterate local “In Guatemala, you have a new generation of directors shooting in digital. culture — like a runaway dinosaur on a snacking rampage. And making cinema,” says Bustamante. “In the past, making a film “The ability to roll the camera without worrying about it’s not just the popcorn flicks that wield influence. Serious was complicated because Guatemala didn’t have things like waste was so important,” he says. “If we were dealing with film directors, such as Quentin Tarantino and David Fincher, have laboratories to develop film. But digital has changed that.” stock, it’d be impossible.” also inspired the works of many international directors. Such technology made it possible for Bustamante to create “Thithi” has gained praise on the festival circuit and will “I couldn’t have done my film without watching post- “Ixcanul,” his first feature film, shot on the lap of a volcano in the screen at the New Directors/New Films festival in New York City Vietnam American films and modern ones like ‘The Hurt Guatemalan highlands in the indigenous language of Kaqchikel. The in March. It joins a new wave of films that aim to provide a more Locker’ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’” said Tobias Lindholm, whose movie picked up the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin International incisive, less glamorous view of Indian society. The question is movie “A War,” about a Danish soldier facing war crimes charges, Film Festival last year, was nominated for five Fenix Awards (the will such films resonate with audiences accustomed to the allure is nominated for a foreign-language film Oscar this year. “Once important Ibero-American prize) and was Guatemala’s submission and flash of two moviemaking empires. in a while we (European) directors say, ‘I want to be (Ingmar) to the Academy Awards. (It wasn’t nominated.) “I don’t see Hollywood being replaced,” says Reddy. “But Bergman. I want to sit on my island alone.’ That’s romantic but Many of the new international films are stark and I think the ratio might change. You will see other types of not true. Because when we look to the U.S., it’s still some of the foreboding in their beauty, including a glimpse at Islamic filmmaking grow alongside.” best films we see.” radicalism in “Timbuktu,” the first film from Mauritania to be ——— Moreover, a cross-pollination is also taking place as nominated for an Academy Award. “Ixcanul” and “Embrace of ©2016 Los Angeles Times Hollywood lures global filmmakers who possess captivating the Serpent” tell stories from an indigenous point of view. The Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com styles. Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu, who won a directing latter takes the typical Hollywood exploration film — botanist Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. www.CampusCircle.com CAMPUS CIRCLE March 2016 9 KICKSTART Your Career

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LOS ANGELES — This city adores the movies — excuse me, the Even if you don’t consider yourself a cinephile, even if your Lawrence Austin, the owner of the Silent Movie Theatre (which cinema — absolutely reveres the art form, worships the craft to idea of edgy is the oeuvre of Garry Marshall, you’ll feel smarter then stuck true to its name, refusing to play talkies), was killed near fetishistic levels. No surprise, since it is a company town, and hipper hanging out with these cool kids. in a murder-for-hire scheme by the theater’s projectionist, who home to studios big and small, theaters seemingly outnumbering If possible, try to schedule your SoCal trip to coincide with paid an assassin/moviegoer $25,000 to off his boss/lover for those other places of worship: churches. Cinefamily’s monthly “A Band and a Movie” night, in which a the insurance money. The trigger man, Christian Rodriguez, Given this milieu, it’s also no surprise that revival and musician pairs a movie that best encapsulates the aesthetic of and the projectionist, James Van Sickle, both were convicted of repertory theaters flourish here at a time when, in much of the her or his music. After the showing, the crowd repairs to the murder in 1999. country, vintage films are only streamed in the comfort of your back patio for a short set by the musician. In late December, “But the really interesting part,” Geiger added, “was that living room. Art-house staples such as the New Beverly Cinema, for example, drone metal artist Dylan Carlson picked Sam there was a live organist playing and the man playing it was American Cinematheque at the Egyptian and the Aero, the Peckinpah’s bloody “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.” deaf and didn’t realize somebody had been shot. So he just kept UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the Nuart curate classic, The night I attended, Bay Area singer-songwriter Cass playing the organ during the whole thing.” cultish and curiously idiosyncratic offerings to audiences with a McCombs chose a quintessential California drug movie, “Dusty “That’s the spirit of L.A.,” Londe quipped. deep sense of history and equal amounts whimsy. and Sweets McGee” (1971, directed by Floyd Mutrux), preceded That’s just the kind of ironic, slightly twisted sensibility But you haven’t truly experienced Los Angeles’ celluloid by a short called “Sean,” a 16mm documentary about a boy that draws people to Cinefamily shows. culture — digital be damned; we’re talking primo 35mm prints raised in Haight-Ashbury in 1969. I was not familiar with either The interior of the 180-seat theater is noir chic. It’s dark — until you spend a night at the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie flick, but when I saw the line stretched along Fairfax Avenue and slightly dank, with framed photos of silent-screen icons Theatre in the Fairfax District. — not exactly “Star Wars”-long, but significant — I decided to (from Fatty Arbuckle to Clara Bow) lining the walls. The velvet- Since 2007, a group of film buffs, some of the periphery check it out. backed seats clearly have seen better days, but early birds willing of the industry, has turned L.A.’s erstwhile lone silent movie I fell into line behind a late-20s-something couple, Jordan to pay slightly extra can lounge on the couches in the first few house into a tabernacle of talkies with offerings even movie Londe and Caitlin Geiger, card-carrying Cinefamily members. rows. A DJ is camped in the far left front of the stage to provide mensch Peter Bogdanovich wouldn’t recognize. Willfully They’re both “in the business” — Londe works “in commercials” pre-movie entertainment, but most of the crowd hovers in the obscure (anyone familiar with “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du and Geiger “in fashion” — and both are admitted cineastes. narrow lobby, getting caffeinated and talking movies under Commerce-1080 Bruxelles”?) at times, quirkily nostalgic (Bogey “I moved here 7 years ago, and I found myself not really framed posters of John Cassavetes and Buddy Rogers. & Bacall in “Dark Passage”) at others, and campily creepy liking L.A.,” Londe said. “I was from the Midwest and so it wasn’t Everyone’s a critic here, or so it seemed. I overheard a (“Blue Sunshine”) on weekends, the Cinefamily offerings may until six months in that somebody recommended I come here. confab about the plot ambiguities of “Eraserhead” and how it entertain you, mystify you, occasionally infuriate and disgust Something shifted for me. I found a group of people I like. It presaged the psycho-sexual pathology in “Blue Velvet.” But then you, but these flicks are like nothing you’ll ever experience either very much is a Cinefamily. I’m not joking. The cool thing is the I ran into Steven Gonzalez. He was no cinephile, thank goodness. in a chain theater or at home with a Redbox selection. aesthetic diversity. You find other theaters in town, but they have “I just think this place is cool because they have all these It’s more than just a revival house; it incorporates films a very specific theme to their program. But this one kind of does strange movies,” he said. “One time I came, they showed into broader entertainment. About once a month, a program it all. It’s all over the map.” a documentary about some religious cult. They showed called “Doug Bensen’s Interruption” takes a cheesy movie An added attraction for Geiger: “There’s the history of the infomercials from the cult from ’70s TV. Craziest stuff you’ll — December’s offering: “Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas” place. Do you know the history?” ever see.” — and has comedians and actors (Sarah Silverman and Zach I reeled off what I’d read on Cinefamily’s website, how this ——— Galifianakis, for example) sit on the couches in the first few was a silent movie house started in 1942 and run, on and off, CINEFAMILY AT THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE rows, microphones in hand, providing snarky commentary, until the early 2000s before a consortium of movie types — led Where: 611 North Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles a la “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” Cinefamily plays vintage by Hadrian Belove, a writer and owner of the erstwhile Cinefile More info: www.cinefamily.org Saturday morning cartoons on, well, Saturday mornings, hews Video store — got together and turned it into a repertory house. ——— to its roots with a Saturday night silent movie, and often presents “No, I mean the murder,” Geiger said. ©2016 The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.) curated compilations, such as “The Comedians: Drunks, “The what?” Visit The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, Calif.) at www.sacbee. Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy,” “It’s a sordid history,” Londe added. com hosted by author Kliph Nesteroff. Subsequent Googling turned up the story: In 1997, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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TAYLOR HAWKINS, FOO FIGHTERS DRUMMER, HAS FUN WITH CLASSIC ROCK

BY ALLISON STEWART - CHICAGO TRIBUNE (TNS)

BEING IN A CLASSIC ROCK COVER BAND ISN’T unjaded Everybro. He formed Chevy Metal to fight the boredom I needed to stay in shape,” Hawkins says. “I needed to kind of COMPLICATED, especially if you’re Taylor Hawkins, frontman and erosion of musical discipline brought on by Foo Fighters lightly think about music, because the Foos had gotten really of Chevy Metal (specialty: Black Sabbath, Queen and early Van down time, and because he wanted to play James Gang covers heavy at that point. We were trying to make this record, and it Halen covers) and drummer for the Foo Fighters. with his friends. He divides his life between his superstar rock was really hard. We just weren’t doing what we wanted to do, band and the pressure-free existence of his other rock band. He is and everyone scattered. Chevy Metal became kind of a musical According to Hawkins, these are the rules: doing what you would do with your life, if somebody let you do gym, somewhere I could stay in shape and enjoy music on a high it. “I need to find another hobby,” Hawkins protests. “I could use school level.” 1. Pick some songs you know. a life, trust me.” The Foos play arenas and large-scale European festivals. Hawkins belonged to a few cover bands in high school in Chevy Metal plays clubs, a lot of charity gigs and the kind of 2. Play them. Laguna Beach, Calif. They would play school dances, and the local events that involve tractor pulls. Grohl sometimes appears weddings of the less discerning. “Those were fun,” Hawkins alongside them onstage, and he guested on the self-titled 2014 3. Don’t be afraid to shuffle the set list around: Two fast songs says. “That’s fun. When we go do those kinds of shows, it kind of debut from the Birds of Satan, which is Chevy Metal reconstituted followed by a medium-tempo song will usually work. transcends you back to that frame of mind, which is a very simple as a prog-flavored rock band performing original material. way to enjoy music, remembering the old songs you love, getting If Hawkins minds being upstaged by his superstar boss 4. Don’t worry about playing slow ones. There will be no slow together with your bros. There’s no real high tension. No one’s during his own gigs, he betrays no sign of it: The Foo Fighters ones. “We’re not good enough to play Journey or anything like life depends on this.” seem to be the rare band that actually enjoys one another’s that,” Hawkins says wistfully. He joined the Foo Fighters in 1997, a few years after they company. “If we do a Foo Fighters record, we work off and on for first formed. “When we were younger, when we were first trying six months, from inception to final recording. Sometimes it takes 5. Special guests are something everyone can enjoy (Hawkins: make our mark for real on the first three records, it was intense,” a year to do one, but that’s not (working) every day,” Hawkins “I’ll let anybody up”). Past examples include Hawkins’ boss Hawkins recalls. Participation in outside bands was frowned says. “There’s a lot of time to do other stuff. The more you do, Dave Grohl, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx (this happened one time, upon: When Grohl joined Queens of the Stone Age in the early especially if it’s a good, positive experience, you come back and and was a highlight of Hawkins’ career) and “the guy from Ratt.” ‘00s, it sent fear into the hearts of those in the Foos camp. “When you bring that zest back to the Foo Fighters, which is the mother you would do anything different, people would get uptight,” ship for all of us. (We’re) always doing stuff on the side, and 6. If a gig is going poorly, there is nothing to be done, no messiah, Hawkins says. “I remember when Dave was doing Queens, that’s fine. You should.” no one surefire, crowd-pleasing song that will save you. Let it everyone was really uptight. They were like, ‘Oh no, he’s in that ——— happen. band right now.’” ©2016 Chicago Tribune Chevy Metal began as a reaction to, and an escape from, the Visit the Chicago Tribune at www.chicagotribune.com Hawkins, 44, is a drummer of formidable skill, but he’s also an Foos’ pressure-cooker existence. “I started Chevy Metal because Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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FOOD LET’S EAT: ORANGE BEEF

BY GRETCHEN MCKAY - PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (TNS)

CHINESE NEW YEAR, which began last week, ushers in the Year 2 tablespoons Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce the fridge for up to 5 days or in freezer for up to 3 months. of the Monkey, the ninth of the 12 animals in the recurring 12- 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh ginger Make dish: Combine steak, egg white, cornstarch and salt year Chinese zodiac cycle. While people born under this sign can 1 1/2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic in bowl and toss with your hands to coat the beef well. Heat be a bit quick-tempered, they’re also thought to be cheerful and 1 fresh red Thai chili, thinly sliced oil in a wide cast-iron skillet over high heat until oil begins to energetic. Monkeys might even be described as magnetic. For dish smoke. Add beef in one layer and cook without stirring until the The recipe we offer below to celebrate the new lunar year 1 pound boneless rib-eye steak, fat trimmed and cut into 1-inch bottoms of the pieces are golden brown, about 1 minute. Flip has many of the same qualities. Tangy-sweet and crunchy- pieces beef, add red onion, scallion pieces and dried chilies and cook, tender, it offers the perfect balance of flavors and textures. True, 1 large egg white stirring occasionally, until beef is cooked to medium rare, about it’s more Chinese-American than authentic Chinese, but it’s a 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch 2 minutes more. Transfer contents of skillet to plate. favorite take-out dish nonetheless. It was a little spicy for my 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt Pour 1/2 cup orange sauce into skillet, let it boil and cook, parents, who got it for their 65th wedding anniversary; next time 1/4 cup vegetable oil stirring occasionally, just until sauce thickens to a syrupy texture. I’ll cut back on the chilies. 1/2 cup sliced red onion Dump rib-eye mixture into sauce and stir until sauce coats the Serve with white rice and charred orange wedges. 3 scallions, dark greens thinly sliced, the rest cut into 1 1/2-inch beef, 12 to 30 seconds. Take skillet off heat, stir in orange zest Chopsticks optional. pieces and scallion greens, and transfer the dish to a plate with broccoli. ——— 2 Asian dried red chiles Serves 4. ORANGE BEEF 1 tablespoon finely grated orange zest — “Asian-American: Proudly Inauthentic Recipes From the PG tested 2 cups steamed broccoli florets Philippines to Brooklyn” by Dale Talde with JJ Goode (Grand For sauce Make sauce: Combine all sauce ingredients in medium skillet, Central Life & Style, Sept. 2015, $32) 1 1/2 cups orange juice bring mixture to a boil over high heat and cook, stirring ——— 1/2 cup unseasoned rice vinegar occasionally, until it reduces by about half (to 1 1/2 cups) and ©2016 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1/2 cup granulated sugar it’s just barely thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon, Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at www.post-gazette.com 1/4 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce about 10 minutes. Reserve 1/2 cup for dish. The rest will keep in Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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BY LAUREN WILLIAMS - THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER(TNS)

FROM THE MOMENT OUR CAR CLIMBED OVER THE RUST- After our Trona Pinnacles pit stop, we arrived at our although we didn’t encounter them. COLORED MOUNTAINS and descended into boulder-studded campsite in Furnace Creek by early afternoon with plenty of The night before we left, a full moon cast a luminous blue valleys, a sense of peaceful solitude was the tone for our weekend daylight left to pitch our tents, despite the shortened winter days. light over the campsite, eliminating the need for flashlights, and in Death Valley National Park. Of the nine campgrounds in the 3 million acre park, dry lightning over the distant mountains further lit up the night Only five hours from the coast, the barren landscape and Furnace Creek is perhaps the most “plush,” with sinks to wash sky. Yipping coyotes, audible both from the north and south, dearth of cars outside our caravan of three added to the feeling dishes, RV hookups, fire pits, picnic tables and flushing toilets. intensified the eeriness. that we were a world apart from bustling Southern California, It’s also the most expensive, at $18 each night during peak On our last morning, we awoke before dawn to watch the away from civilization altogether, pioneers exploring virgin land. season. (During the park’s sweltering offseason, the price dips sunrise at Zabriskie Point. The slowly unfurling light painted the It felt as though we ventured out onto the surface of Mars, to $12 nightly.) It’s also convenient, given the campgrounds’ distant mountains and marbled rock formations in incredible or at least, that’s where my imagination took me. proximity to Furnace Creek Ranch, which includes a motel and purple, pink, orange and yellow hues. Of course, we’re not the first people to set foot in Death Valley a well-appointed convenience store with craft beer, firewood — far from it — but the vast expanses of open space, absence of and decent snacks. IF YOU GO structures and preternatural silences can inspire such musings. Fifty miles from the Furnace Creek campsite sits the Getting there: There are several entry points into the park. We It is astonishing that the land in Death Valley remains as incredible Ubehebe Crater, which was formed as recently as 300 wanted to see the Trona Pinnacles and took I-605 to I-210, then pristine as it is, with its history of mining. In 1994, Congress years ago, according to the National Park Service. Visitors park caught I-15 to the 395. The road to turn off the 395, Searles expanded the area’s protection beyond its status as a national near the crater’s precipice and can hike 600 feet into its core, or Station, isn’t clearly marked, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled monument to that of a national park. climb up and around its rim. We opted for the latter, walking up for a green sign that says Trona. While its land is characterized by sparse vegetation, the the pebbly path made up of tiny black volcanic rocks, where we Pro tip: Check your tires before you head out. Some of the rocky terrain is amazingly varied, from salt flats and sand dunes glimpsed neighboring Little Hebe crater in the distance. backcountry paths are unpaved and have sizable holes and rocks to snowcapped mountains and trickling springs. Closer to camp lie the rolling Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes that can wreak havoc on smaller cars. That being said, my Toyota We entered the park through the desolate mining town of that seem to stretch on for miles. Some mounds reach 100 feet sedan did fine. Trona. in height. Climbing to the top of a few of the taller sandy hills Weather: Death Valley has highly variable weather and is the Had we driven an extra 100 miles or so, we could have is a must, if only for the view. The fine sand has an almost silky hottest and driest place in North America. Between November stopped to visit Manzanar, an internment camp where Japanese quality, although the tiny particles invariably find their way and March, though, daily highs range from an average of 65 to Americans were confined during World War II. But on this trip, between your toes and coat your skin, detracting somewhat 82 degrees. After March, average high temperatures climb and we concentrated on the area’s ancient history. from the landmark’s appeal. by July can reach 116 degrees. Rainfall is near nonexistent. Pack Driving into the park from the west meant we could stop Salt and other minerals coating the landscape give Death accordingly. by the Trona Pinnacles, jagged peaks formed underwater up to Valley a perennial winter wonderland quality. Reservations: Campers should make reservations up to 100,000 years ago in the now dry Searles Lake, according to the Despite its barren landscape, Death Valley isn’t devoid four days in advance during peak season — Oct. 15-April 15 — Bureau of Land Management. There are more than 500 of these of life. The Devil’s Cornfield, a field of low-lying green brush, at 877-444-6777 or recreation.gov. Other times of the year, it is unusual tufa spires in the dry lake basin, their pores and jagged is between Ubehebe Crater and Mesquite Flat. A wooden first come, first served. edges reminiscent of corral. boardwalk at the Salt Creek Trail follows a trickling stream in ——— Our group of six left our respective homes at 6:30 a.m. on a which pupfish perform a quirky mating ritual in the springtime. ©2016 The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) Friday, wading through a little Southern California traffic before Croaking ravens patrol the campgrounds on the hunt for food. Visit The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) at www. arriving at our rendezvous point, the Outpost Cafe in Hesperia. Other desert dwellers, such as the hairy scorpion, kit fox, ocregister.com From there we would caravan into the park. pallid bat and chuckwalla, are also Death Valley inhabitants, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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L.A. CULTURE ‘LUCHA UNDERGROUND’ WRESTLING: TIGHTS AND MELODRAMA ON TV

BY JEFFREY FLEISHMAN LOS ANGELES TIMES(TNS)

LOS ANGELES — Across the Los Angeles River, in a warehouse different in years.” credited the program’s theatrics and polished editing. “Wrestling of ghosts and corrugated steel, King Cuerno fastens his mask Beginning its second season, the English-language show used to be more campier. But this is cinematic, and the crowd is and strides bare-chested past girders and broken windows is an echo of Los Angeles, a city of incongruent architecture involved. They have storylines and wrestling. It’s entertainment.” toward the ring, where wrestlers spin in pinwheels and dance and shifting syntax, where food trucks traversing the fringes Professional wrestling has long been the odd cousin of on ropes in a frenzied ballet of peacock colors and flying head park amid the glint of razor wire and the blush of graffiti. who we are, that sequined and booted carnival of scowls and scissors. Rising beneath palms on ground where trains run no more, the grimaces, of hammerlocks and backflips, of mad men aflight; The crowd in Boyle Heights — twentysomething Latinos, building that houses “the Temple” and its ring is an early 1900s all make-believe, but in the spark of the moment, wonderfully comic-book geeks and a rowdy bunch of Marines — stomps metal factory that has appeared in the movie “Horrible Bosses” alive with the scent of blood and the glimmer of pomp. “Lucha” in glee. Sliding through the clamor with sinister aplomb is and the TV show “NCIS: Los Angeles.” captures this with eight cameras, editing booths and back promoter Dario Cueto, his voice like a bullet through velvet. He “Boyle Heights was the first stop for many immigrants stories woven with Aztec folklore that seek to compete with the rules over “Lucha Underground,” a professional wrestling TV who came to Los Angeles,” executive producer Eric Van dominant programming on World Wrestling Entertainment. series where heroes and villains tangle in noirish melodrama and Wagenen said before the taping of a new episode on a recent With menace and winked charm, “Lucha” is emblematic of Aztec mythology in search of the Gift of the Gods championship Saturday afternoon. He noted that the show is trying to unite the style of El Rey Network, begun in 2013 by filmmaker Robert belt. the neighborhood in a county that is about 50 percent Latino. Rodriguez. The network conjures the mischievous shadows and The scripted program blends the flamboyance of the “We’re embracing them with a throwback nostalgia for lucha. gonzo bloodletting in two of Rodriguez’s films “From Dusk aerobatic lucha libre wrestling style prominent in Mexico with It’s kitschy fun for a phenomenon that came before.” Till Dawn,” a tale of vampires and hoodlums starring George the brawn and punch prevalent north of the border. Airing on George Arenivar waited in the dusk near a hamburger truck Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, and “Sin City,” a noirish thriller El Rey Network, which reaches 40 million homes in the U.S., the during the intermission before a six-on-six tag team match. A starring Bruce Willis and based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel show is a glimpse of a hybrid America at a time when immigration cool breeze lifted as young men in white T-shirts and loose jeans of the same name. reform and Donald Trump are challenging the parameters of finished their beers and drifted toward distant fences. A graphic “It’s not just pure lucha libre out here,” said Brian Cage, citizenship and the nation’s changing demographics. artist whose day job is at UPS, Arenivar stood near a white guy known as “The Machine,” brandishing a mohawk haircut and “Latino culture is very pop culture now,” said Chavo with a shaved head, two furiously texting blond girls and a trio restless muscles. “It’s a blend of styles. It crosses cultures. Instead Guerrero Jr., a third-generation wrestler whose grandfather was of hipster types who looked as if they had wandered over from of being a B-version of the WWE, it’s something different. It’s a famous luchador in Mexico. “People think, ‘Oh, “Lucha,” it’s a Spring Street cafe. more of a TV show about wrestling than a wrestling TV show. a Mexican show.’ Uh, no. Look at the fan base. It’s wrestling. “‘Lucha Underground’ is culturally diverse,” said Arenivar, It’s not watered down. It’s not overdone with drama and soap Wrestling is African-Americans, whites, Asians. It’s all different. one of more than 400 fans who attended a recent taping; opera BS. It’s more (vivid) as opposed to corny and cheese ball.” In the wrestling world this show is the first thing that’s been “Lucha’s” highest-rated show drew 250,000 viewers. Arenivar The six-on-six tag team bout was a blur of colors when

20 CAMPUS CIRCLE March 2016 Film | Music | Culture L.A. CULTURE “A body slam was a huge move back in the 1960s…Today if you body slam they’ll boo you out of the building.”

Prince Puma — donning animal headdress — marched into “the But ‘Lucha’ blew me away. You can tell it’s shot by filmmakers. . (But) don’t take spoilers and send that … on the Internet … . Temple” through a scrim of smoke with a cadre that included a It’s totally revolutionary.” Everybody deserves that emotional ejaculation when they see a black wrestler brandishing an Afro pick, a woman dressed in a Despite its edge, though, “Lucha” evokes a past of ragged show.” dominatrix skirt and a cat-like mask, and a white guy who looked arenas and masked men, when challengers appeared out of the A guy in the crowd, wearing a “Lucha” mask T-shirt, threw like he belonged on a ZZ Top album cover. They faced off against Mexican countryside and legacies were handed to wrestlers like his arms to heaven and stood like a statue. King Cuerno and his crew, notably Taya, who wore red lipstick King Cuerno, who trained in the arts of combat and started “USA, USA, USA,” chanted a row of Marines. and eyelashes as plush as a crow’s wings, and her partner, the wrestling when he was 4. A man turned to his girlfriend: “I will not sit down. I will magically cocky Johnny Mundo. “The masks and the whole mystery behind everything comes not be contained.” “We’re this absolutely glamorous, mean-streaked couple from Mexico,” said the king, zipped into a mask and peering A little wrestler, Mascarita Sagrada, accompanied by who are here to show we belong in ‘the Temple,’” said Taya, a through eye-slits. “We love all this paraphernalia and flamboyance.” Famous B and Beautiful Brenda, bounded into the ring in a classically trained ballerina who hails from Canada and like other He disappeared toward the workout room — a shamble of mask, zip-up white suit and matching patent leather boots. He competitors wrestles for Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion, weights, graffiti, duct tape — as Guerrero, his mustache neatly went at it with Joey Ryan, but after a few leaps and kicks the a lucha libre promotion in Mexico. “Johnny Mundo and I are trimmed, spoke of speed and flying moves and how much things little man hit the canvas and the ref moved in. The crowd booed, viewed as foreigners in this Aztec-Mexican legend built scenario.” have changed since the time when his father wrestled the lucha screamed and whooped, and after a moment Guerrero, dressed Off to the side of the ring, Cueto (played by Luis Fernandez- style in Japan and the U.S., including in Los Angeles at the like an Aztec gladiator, faced off against Cage, who was squeezed Gil) lurked about like a gangster’s whisper. He disappeared Olympic Auditorium. into a black and yellow singlet and growled like a man who had into an office of pulled blinds, booze and a set of bullhorns “Back in the day it was just a headlock,” said Guerrero. lost a bag of money. on the wall. The promoter’s lair had the whiff of old smoke, “A body slam was a huge move back in the 1960s. You body “You still suck,” somebody yelled. creaky leather and a man up to no good; Cueto, of course, was slammed somebody and it was, ‘Whoa, that’s crazy.’ Today if Guerrero and Cage went balletic, spinning, flipping off maneuvering to regain control of “the Temple” after a murder you body slam they’ll boo you out of the building. You got to ropes, slamming each other. They spilled out of the ring and at the end of Season 1 forced him to vamoose as the luchadores light yourself on fire, you know. It’s like X Games now, and we’ve back into it, and when it was over, sweat on the canvas and a roar scattered. taken it to a different level.” in the air, one of them (no spoilers allowed) lifted the belt and “I’m a lifelong wrestling fan. I’ve always been fascinated, The thumping bass line of “the Temple’s” band, a collision let the cameras feed upon him. and I’ve flown all over the country to see matches,” said Gabriel of guitars and horns that could startle the dead, roused the ——— Daigle, who brought his 14-year-old son to the match. “But crowd. Ring announcer Melissa Santos wore a tight green dress ©2016 Los Angeles Times over time I lost interest.” He added that the WWE and other and slipped through the ropes with a microphone, followed by Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com wrestling programs “got stupid and challenged my intelligence. a man in black who told the crowd: “We love you like family … Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. www.CampusCircle.com CAMPUS CIRCLE March 2016 21 FASHION LESSONS LEARNED FROM 10 SEASONS OF NEW YORK FASHION WEEK

NEW YORK — Another New York Fashion Week is in the books. — Not for the faint of heart: If you’re not prepared for Now before I head to Fashion Week, I’m like a runner While this biannual marathon of runway shows across the Big it, New York Fashion Week will kick your butt. Most days, training for an actual marathon: I take lots of vitamins, try to stay Apple is always a big deal, this one was a little extra special to me. shows span from morning to night, you’re on your feet (a lot!), hydrated and eat the right things, get plenty of sleep to build up The fall/winter 2016 shows, which wrapped on Thursday, and a meal is sometimes whatever you can find in your bag my strength and break in comfortable shoes. marked my 10th time covering New York Fashion Week or grab on the go while dashing between shows. Plus, factor — Misunderstood: Sure, New York Fashion Week has its (excluding a stint reporting on the inaugural Council of in whatever the weather is up to (90-plus degrees sometimes glamorous moments. I’ve seen some of the most spectacular Fashion Designers of America men’s shows last summer, and during the September shows, and the occasional blizzard, ice views of the city from fashion shows atop five-star hotels and hours upon hours spent organizing editors’ runway show storm, wintry mix and below-freezing temperatures during swanky Fifth Avenue penthouses. One time, I entered a room invites in college as an intern for a Manhattan-based fashion the February Fashion Week). Lots of sleep isn’t a luxury, and there was singer Rod Stewart lounging on a couch chatting magazine, back before most of the invitation process was either. For journalists, nights and early mornings are spent up guests. Another time, I almost rode in a golf cart through digitized). writing, catching up on emails and responding to last-minute Central Park with supermodel Karlie Kloss. For a few seasons, my Over the years, I’ve been asked all sorts of questions about invitations. assigned seat was regularly a couple of rows behind Vogue editor these experiences: What’s it like? How does it work? Do you get The Fashion Week cold is a common thing. One season, Anna Wintour, so I started a collection of photos of her signature to dress up? Can people sneak in? (And the list goes on … ) mine turned into mononucleosis. I also developed severe bob shot from behind. But for every chance to rub elbows with a Here’s what I’ve figured out along the way: tendinitis in my ankle from attempting to traipse around the celebrity or see the back of Wintour’s head, there are lots of less- New York Fashion Week is … city in cute heels. Lesson learned. glamorous moments. Fashion Week isn’t all parties and paparazzi.

22 CAMPUS CIRCLE March 2016 Film | Music | Culture FASHION

BY SARA BAUKNECHT PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (TNS)

Most of the time, it’s work. (Not convinced? See above.) — A terrible place to use the restroom: At some venues, it’s tended to, and it inspires me to strive for the same attention to — At times, political: Who gets in and sits where is serious just a trailer with skinny stalls and sticky floors, sometimes with detail in my line of work. Someone like Dennis Basso or Zang business at New York Fashion Week. There’s lots of jockeying an artificial flower bouquet or some fancy soap on the sink to try Toi produces collections and shows that are shining examples of involved. For journalists, it’s about knowing the right people to make you feel like you’re back in that Fifth Avenue penthouse pure glamour, no matter what the garments look like or who the and trying to forge relationships with those you don’t know. with the spectacular views (where you wish you would have models are. Those are reminders that beauty comes in all shapes, As a reporter for a regional newspaper, it’s interesting to learn used the restroom instead). colors and sizes. about how a brand measures the importance of a metro daily — Is unlike anything else: In spite of the long days, scarce When Betsey Johnson or Libertine holds a runway show, newspaper based on how it responds to me. (Thankfully, there food and less-than-ideal restroom accommodations, I would do models usually end up dancing down the runway. It’s hard to still are several designers who view newspapers as valuable.) it all again — and again and again. For me, New York Fashion not have a smile on your face. You forget about that smashed Tips for rookies: If you can snag an end seat, take it (the Week is not only an opportunity to network and accumulate granola bar from the pits of your purse that you called lunch. sight lines are typically better). If you get stuck in the standing story ideas for the next six months, it’s inspiring. I’m always Shows like these are just plain fun. Isn’t that what we all need to section, don’t fret it (if you maneuver your way to the front amazed by what designers come up with, from the clothes to the make a little more time for? there’s a good chance you’ll get tapped to fill an empty seat). If actual runway shows themselves. ——— you don’t get in at all, try again next time (the more you cover I’m awestruck by someone like Tommy Hilfiger, who ©2016 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fashion Week, the more it will open new opportunities with season after season comes up with creative sets and show Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at www.post-gazette.com other shows in future seasons). concepts that are masterfully executed. Every minute detail is Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. www.CampusCircle.com CAMPUS CIRCLE March 2016 23 SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS 10AM - 7PM Present coupon at Faire Box Office to receive one of the following: | OPENING WEEKEND! 2ND WEEKEND SAVINGS Children Admitted FREE One Adult Ticket - $15 Valid ages 12 & under. Coupon not required for child tickets. APRIL 9 Offer & ticket valid Saturday, Offer & ticket valid Saturday or Sunday, April 9, 2016 only. CC April 16 or 17, 2016 only. CC T H R U SPECIAL SAVINGS 2 0 1 6 One full priced M AY 22 $ 50 Adult Ticket 2 OFF RENFAIR.COM Offer & ticket valid Saturdays or Sundays, April 23 - May 22, 2016 only. CC Regular Adult Ticket Price is $28.95. Offers cannot be combined. Children 4 & under always admitted free. No pets or smoking, please. Limit one coupon per person. Not valid with any other offer. Not valid with online ticket sales. Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area | Irwindale, CA • 626-969-4750

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