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It was 3 p.m. on a cloudy afternoon this past Saturday when I arrived at the “California Scenario” sculpture garden in Costa Mesa with my peers and Professor Bert Winther-Tamaki from my Art History 198 seminar class. For weeks I had anticipated this field trip to this sculpture garden that I had no previous knowledge of, for I would be able to experience one of the many artworks of Isamu Noguchi, widely considered one of the most celebrated and memorable artists of 20th-century American sculpture.

SUPERHERO: Marvel’s god of thunder marks his cinematic debut and the summer with a stifled bang.

DRAMA: The Tony Award-winning play has arrived in Los Angeles, and it is not to be missed.

AUTOMATED: Dredg, once a truly magnificent band, suffers a terrible fate in their latest album.

KABOOM: Originally a trailer, “Hobo With a Shotgun” has become a feature film, and the result is glorious.

RING: “Jumping the Broom” manages to put a creative twist on the conventions of romantic comedy.

WED: Judd Apatow proves you don’t need a bunch of fat, bearded actors to make his comedy work.

Of the seemingly innumerable new bands that have burst onto the music scene over the past few years, perhaps none was as prone to the stereotypical sophomore slump as Fleet Foxes. Their self-titled debut album, released almost three years ago, generated a profuse amount of buzz and sales to match, going platinum in the UK and topping almost every notable best-of-the-year list.

FILMS: Joseph Gordon-Levitt unveiled his new media project to hundreds of (mostly female) fans in LA.

Recently, the PlayStation Network, or PSN, was compromised and shut down. All users of the service, past and present, had their personal information stolen, possibly including their credit card information. This story has been constantly evolving since it began, and while some functionality may return by the time this is published, the numerous multifaceted effects of the PSN Blackout will be felt for years to come.

The last week of April is, for those in the know, Shakespeare Week: the week when the Bard of Avon was baptized (on April 26, 1564) and died (on April 23, 1616). To my mind, no film released this Shakespeare Week does more to honor his legacy than Justin Lin’s “Fast Five,” the fourth sequel to 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious” and the latest since 2009’s “Fast & Furious.”

Andrew W.K., best known for his party-rock anthems and iconic bloody-nosed album cover, brought his unique insight to UC Irvine this week in a lecture organized by Acrobatics Everyday.