Tag: Savannah Peykani

Art and Anxiety in David Lynch’s Small Town America

For most people who grew up in smaller towns — whether they be suburban or rural — those towns were there in order for...

Blue Note Records: A Jazz Retrospective

The drummer counts us off. On four, we hear the bouncing beat of the stand-up bass followed by the swelling croon of two saxophones,...

Mariah Magic and the Power of Divas

By Savannah Peykani By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Mariah Carey’s fiasco of a performance on New Year’s Eve. Due to some mysterious technological...

Blazing and Glazing: Snoop and Martha’s Joint Cooking Show

By Savannah Peykani Tuesday night, November 8. An election night that, for many of us, brought despair, dread and utter shock. People glued to their...

The Sur-Reality of Black Experience in “Atlanta”

By Savannah Peykani At the end of summer, FX introduced a bizarre series premiere that started with a parking lot shooting and ended with a...

Chotto Desh Resolves A Generational Divide With Dance

By Savannah Peykani A typical dance show will feature a group of people, usually called a company, performing various pieces of choreography with different songs...

Ivy-less Irvine: The Modern Style of UC Irvine’s Campus Architecture and William Pereira’s Vision of “Perfection”

Since coming to UCI, you’ve probably participated in — or at least overheard — a conversation that complained about UCI’s architecture. Or… maybe that’s...

One Story, Two Rooms: The Telematic Project

 "Smoke Front" By Savannah Peykani Responsibility. Heroes. Morals versus rules. Bureaucracy. Confusion. Desperation. Siblings. Chaos. Fuck the man! Distance versus closeness. Passive aggressiveness. Safety. Fire. Decisions....

Hope, Faith and “Revelations”: A Night with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

A gunshot ignites the movement on stage, as sixteen young dancers erupt from their huddle and begin to slink, crawl and leap across the...

Praying to Yeezus, Our Lord and Savior

My life can be divided up into Kanye West chapters. 2005 meant watching music videos on VH1 and seeing the now-iconic “Gold Digger” video...

FIDLAR on the Regent

Costumes, trick-or-treating, haunted houses and… moshing? This may not be the most traditional addition to Halloween festivities, but for my friend Lauren and I,...

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