Entertainment

Scott Hove Takes a Shot at a Daring ­­and Delicious New Art Form

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By Sonya Karabel

Local artist Scott Hove has given a new meaning to the phrase “sugarcoating the issue” with his new series, “Guns and Ecstasy.”

This exhibit, which is currently at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, features guns decorated to look like ornate cakes. Each of the works has a different theme, but they all vary on the same design — a gun mounted on a board and covered in what looks like very cutesy frosting. The overall effect is a strong juxtaposition between soft and hard imagery.

Pearls of Wisdom: 5/17/13

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By Zoë Pearl Steckler

An homage to my favorite television show, Friday Night Lights, is long overdue. The show originally aired in 2006, which might make it seem irrelevant, but all five seasons are provided on instant play on Netflix. Initially, I was hesitant to watch this series. When my mom suggested a show about a football team in Texas, I couldn’t have been more uninterested. Football, of all sports, was probably my least favorite thing to watch on TV. After the first episode, however, I was hooked.

Fifth Great Gatsby Movie Stays True to Book

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By Michael McCabe

On May 10 2013, The Great Gatsby came to theaters, this time directed by Baz Lurhman. This is the fifth Gatsby movie to be made from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about class and lust in the Roaring Twenties. If you have not read the novel, which I strongly recommend, the basic premise is that a young, humble man named Nick Carraway lives in a metropolitan area and has ties to the wealthy upper class there. Nick acts primarily as an observer and the book isn’t about him, as the title might suggest. His neighbor is a shady, mysterious, and thoroughly charismatic man.

Christian Marclay Creates 24-Hour Long Movie

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By Sasha Barish

Time.

Time provides the organizational and perceptive framework for our entire lives. Performers spend years mastering the art of timing. Public transit riders rely on a precisely timed routine to get where they’re going. Students move, eat, and study according to a schedule that divides time into 58– and 6–minute periods.

Flix Fix: 5/17/13

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By Emeric Laverne

Some of the coolest, most captivating movies are those that play with time. They rearrange events so that they are out of chronological order or find another way to bend their logical sequence. Many of my top movies take apart time and weave it back together in the most creative ways, constructing a contorted but calculated plot.

Playing with time is specific to no genre of film and has created fantastic comedies as well as suspenseful thrillers. Three of these films that I adore are Memento, Run Lola Run, and Groundhog Day.

Oblivion Excites Visually but Lacks in Emotion

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By Louisa Mascuch

Taking place in a post-apocalyptic future, actor Tom Cruise’s recent high–profile sci-fi movie, Oblivion, leaves something to be desired for audience members.

BUILD Pizzeria Soon to Be Lunchtime Hotspot

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By John MacKay

Few new restaurants in Berkeley manage to make everything work right off the bat. Having just recently opened up for lunch, it is surprising that BUILD Pizzeria Roma already functions like a well–oiled machine. Their friendly, attentive staff and pizzaioli can make your hand–crafted pizza in less than three minutes in one of their two 5,000 pound wood fire ovens. And it’s not only pizza; they’ve got a wide variety of delicious and well–made salads that will go very well with your meal.

Artist Spotlight: Dafna Bearson

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By Adrienne Sontag-Murphy

Dafna Bearson, a senior in Berkeley International High School (BIHS), has found passion in the world of theater. For the past five years, she has been a part of the Youth Musical Theater Company (YMTC), with roles in Merrily We Roll Along and Anything Goes, among others. Last year she performed a piece called “You Tell Me How To Be a Girl in 2010” in The Vagina Monologues. Her experience with the play was so moving, she hoped to inspire others with the same pieces. This year she held off on acting in YMTC to take on the role of director in this year’s showing of The Vagina Monologues.

Coachella Not for the Faint of Heart —Sandstorms Galore

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By Sarah Carlin

For Berkeley High students, the spring leaves many yearning for summer, counting down the days until the last bell rings and everyone is released from the routines of homework and early morning alarm clocks. But for some BHS students and many music lovers all over the country, April is a highly anticipated month in which thousands of people flock to the desert outside Palm Springs for the Coachella Music Festival.

Spanning two four–day weekends each year, this concert series has accumulated a loyal following since its official beginning in 1999.

Pearls of Wisdom: 5/3/13

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By Zoë Pearl Steckler

“You are more beautiful than you think,” appears on my computer screen at the end of a touching three–minute–and–one–second video that I have just watched on YouTube.

As I was scrolling down my news feed on Facebook one night, I noticed a link that one of my friends had posted. Intrigued, I clicked on it and found myself watching a video titled Dove Real Beauty Sketches.

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