Category: Arts & Culture

Avery Durnan / The USD Vista It must be difficult to be taken seriously as a band if the two founding members met on the “Hannah Montana” set. But it is a feat that Metro Station has handily accomplished, soaring up the Billboard charts with their synth-pop, eighties-inspired catchy tunes. […]

Avery Durnan / The USD Vista The name Cute Is What We Aim For (CiWWAF) begs for an explanation. Confidently verbose with a hint of sassiness, the band makes quite a statement before you have even listened to their music. Founding member of the band, lead guitarist Jeff Czum, made […]

Meredith Schneider and Samantha Laroy / The USD Vista Who hears the word “MMMBop” and makes anything more of it than jibberish? As of recent, the Indie music scene has been singing along to Hanson songs. Has this treasured anthem of the summer of 1997 come back to haunt us? […]

Samantha Shorey / The USD Vista Sometimes fashion designers can be, well, a little hard to relate to. They have Diet Coke butlers, wear sunglasses at all times and sell $200 rhinestone encrusted safety pins (Karl Lagerfeld). There is a reason Vogue doesn’t feature a section like US Weekly called […]

Darrin Hall / The USD Vista “Quantum of Solace” debuted in theatres on Nov. 14. James Bond is once again played by rugged Englishman, Daniel Craig, who is questioned throughout the movie by Q, the head of Double-O operations, as to whether his actions are based on his own personal […]

Peter Cho / The USD Vista Your favorite neighborhood hardcore rap trio Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is back at it again with their latest studio album “A History of Violence.” JMT is one of the preeminent underground hip-hop acts on the scene, and also one of the scariest. Described by […]

Erin Hernandez / The USD Vista I came across Francine Prose’s “Goldengrove” while sifting through numerous books. The book jacket outlines the grief that young Nico and her family suffer after the death of her older sister Margaret. This made me highly skeptical because I usually turn to the Shakespearean […]

Carrie Widder / The USD Vista Musicals have always bothered me just a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, one of my favorite past times is hitting up the theater, and I have been known to stop at the merchandise stand and buy the soundtrack on many such occasions, let’s […]

Avery Durnan / The USD Vista Icy Demons is an interesting name for a band; strikingly paradoxical and unforgettably unique. And if you listen to one of their songs, you might feel the same way about their sound. Progressive rocker, Griffin Rodriguez, also known as his musical alter-ego, Blue Hawaii, […]

Kaitlyn Kormondy / The USD Vista Based on the novel “Q&A,” Danny Boyle’s latest film, “Slumdog Millionaire” tells the story of Jamal Malik, a poor young man from India who is about to win 20 million rupees on the hit game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” Accused of […]