arts and entertainment weekly entertainment and arts OSCAR PREVIEW PREDICTIONS, TRENDS AND POLLS place your bets campus experts lay the awards odds create your own red carpet how to throw a Hollywood worthy Oscar party Rocco De Luca and the Burden fresh off VH1, the Long Beach bum stops in Irvine 2 BUZZ 02.22.07 daily.titan OSCAR POLL pg.4 Film professsors and and the opinionated Buzz staff place thier votes for the Oscar winners. ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR OSCAR PARTY HOW-TO’S pg.5 Jickie Torres From uplights to dress codes, a comprehensive guide on EXECUTIVE EDITOR rolling out the red carpet for your oscar viewing party. Adam Levy DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Emily Alford WHAT’S THE OSCAR BUZZ? pg.6 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING You want opinions? You can’t handle opinions. Trends that Beth Stirnaman make the Oscars predictable and why no one should care. 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At TheC amp, Friday 8:oop N positioning itself as the Beverly every Sunday is the “Farm&Art The Mozart Festival Op- Hills of Orange County, it’s hard to Market,” where local grocers sell era comes to the Cer- escape the shadows of the shopping organics, artisans sell their wares ritos Center for the Per- behemoth. What some know to and musicians entertain the crowd. forming Arts with a BAKER ST be true, and more should know if Collectively, the area has been performance of Die Zau- the cool kids let them in on it, is deemed SoBeCa (South on Bristol berflote (The Magical Flute.) the commercial center that rages Entertainment Culture and Arts) against the mall on the intersection by the center’s savvy marketers, but of Baker and Bristol. The Lab, also past that smug detail it’s hard not to known as the Anti-mall, is a hipster admit the place is pretty cool. That Southern Sweets commune comprised of vintage and the people behind SoBeCa offer Saturday 12:oop shops, boutique retailers and a small great community services. Both The African Cultural Arts smattering of funky restaurants. Just locations play host to unique art Council and The Bowers across the road is the more hippy- galleries open to students of the arts Museum, in honor of Black tinged compound called TheC amp. to display their works. Plus, there History month have orga- This earthier center tailors itself to a are the quarterly scholarships the nized a Southern bake sale more active eco-centric crowd with community offers to art students at the museum’s John Lee stores like Adventure 16, Cyclewerks looking for real-life gallery and Court. Goodies will show- and the vegan retailer Humanitaire. venue experience. case a range of traditional Both spots are home to Yes, a lot of the atmosphere is cakes, pies and other sweets random events and spontaneous slightly pretentious and contrived, typical of the Black South. performances. The Lab, for instance, but sometimes it’s best to admit hosts “15 Minutes of Fame,” an open defeat, join the rest of the mic free-for-all where participants hipsters and partake in some cool Cross Culture can rant, rave, sing or speak for happenings. Saturday12:oop Craig Keith Antrim’s Al- Best dinner and show: Best we-only-sell-one-thing store: Arth chemy, The Cross Projects Habana finishes its run at CSUF’s The name, a reference to the words “hat” and “art,” explains it all. The The pre-Castro café is a charming eatery with lush patina and a East Art Gallery. The Japanese import is a boutique that offers the best and coolest hat designers. mouthwateringly devised menu. The chef, a bit of a purist, doesn’t provide project explores the his- any condiments past creme fresh but each plate is original and creative. On tory and meaning of one a good night, diners may be entertained with a rebel rousing, live Latin Best environmental design of the most iconic and dance number. The Camp loaded images: the crucifix. Past the directories list of holistic, good-aura stores, the element with the most impact is the center’s building. The structure is a gentle pastiche of Best freebie: Film Lover CAMPfire Music facades that translate into something from the Prairie School of Design. The next event, which takes place in June, is a good ole’ time around a Gorgeous oversized wood planks interrupted by cool clean metal fronts Sunday 12:30p campfire. Literally. In the open space next to Adventure 16, a huge fire is lit, mimic the convergence of nature and city and captures exactly what it is The OrangeC ounty Ameri- songs are sung and free espressos get passed around to all. the spot hopes to encourage. A way to live naturally and harmoniously with can Italian Renaissance the city surrounding. Foundation and the Ital- tian Cultural Institute have organized a day to honor Serious rantings and pop culture complaints of the best (and Rudolph Valentino at the worst) of the week’s events that can’t help but make you Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. The events offers Today- scream ... WHAT THE F! two films: a documentary Thriving Ivory 1. Britney shaved her head. Guess she 5. In more Australian news, Beyonce’s be buried, his family officials say, a ridiculous on the legendary lover and TSU Pub 12:00p figured since all the hubbub faded getting her balls busted for the month -and-a-half after his death. The JB’s the last film the star made after the public saw her shaved vagina promotional materials used to market gotta be makin’ it funky by now. before his death. Also on Today- something else had to come clean. her upcoming tour Down Under in which display will be original cos- Liederabend with the Diva holds a vintage cigarrette stick. 8. Nicole Ritchie pled not guilty to tumes from one of the films. Michael Schutze on 2. Britney also checked into rehab – again Aussies banned pro-smoking ads which misdemanor charges of driving under – and then checked out – again – this they claim her pics to be. the influence. Remember? That one Women’s Works piano time within 24 hrs. It officially replaces night she was driving the wrong way on Tuesday 9:ooa Recital Hall 8:00p Kabbalah as Brit’s shortest lived new life 6. Rosie O’Donnell’s gay and lesbian the freeway and confessed to cops she Ladies Choice, a collection of change. family cruise charter apparently bumped smoked weed? Yeah, that’s the night. works by female artists from Wednesday- a whole list of passengers that had the Pageant of the Masters is Brawdcast 3. Rocky himself Sylvester Stalone was previously booked with the same boat. 9. The judge that’s presiding over Anna having its final reception at Becker Amphitheater busted in Australia for being in possesion Nice, Rosie takes her pushiness to the Nicole’s estate case reportedly admitted Laguna Beach’s Festival of of illegal performance enhancing drugs. high seas. that he wants to break into reality TV the Arts Wells Fargo gallery. 12:00p He says it’s a misunderstanding, we say with his own court show. Great, looks like that explains it all. 7. James Brown’s body is finally going to crazy is contagious. 4 BUZZ 02.22.07 daily.titan very official THE BUZZ OSCAR PICKS With Dreamgirls sweeping the Golden Globes and Martin Scorsese up for his 6th nomination with no win so far, movie buffs and Oscar bookies are placing their bets on who will bring home the film industry’s most coveted statuette. The Buzz took a poll of the campus’ top critics, film and theater professors and outspoken editors and came up with a list of who are the statistical favorites. Best Actor Animated Film The poll favorite is Whitaker, It’s a tie! Cars and Happy Feet Leonardo DiCaprio garnering half of the votes. Cars split 88 percent of votes.