Anthony Bromberg

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• In the family way

  May 4, 2003 at midnight

  Julia Sweeney’s new one-woman show, “In The Family Way,” is the most remarkable unremarkable show you’ll probably see all year. You know Sweeney from her years on “Saturday Night Live” ...

• 'Lucky Wander Boy"

  April 20, 2003 at midnight

• Idlewild tries for Scottish Invasion

  April 20, 2003 at midnight

  The band’s name is an oxymoron: Idlewild. As hackneyed and inexpressive as most band names are, this one seems to mean something. Idlewild has punk roots and a lead singer ...

• Coincidence fills fictitious town

  April 6, 2003 at midnight

  Crumbtown is populated by ex-cops who now play cops on television, half-twins who have the same father and birthday but different mothers and a former child TV star who’s now ...

• Makeover to push A&E past ‘make out’ edge

  April 4, 2003 at midnight

  So, I feel like we haven’t talked much lately. How’re things going with you? Things are kind of busy around here. We’re making a major change pretty soon. So, here’s ...

• Chabon fathers delightful reading

  March 4, 2003 at midnight

  It’s got to be hard being one of the most beloved authors in the United States. And by hard I mean pretty easy. Take Michael Chabon, he’s recently been the ...

• Coop concert brings back high school memories

  Feb. 26, 2003 at midnight

  So you thought you’d left that teen angst behind when you came to UCLA. There wasn’t going to be any more weeping in the bathroom over boys. That was high ...

• Smith’s songs show emotional duality

  Feb. 3, 2003 at midnight

  Pain is only bad when it doesn’t lead to something beautiful. And when that beauty is manifested in tortured, cathartic music it becomes really hard to talk about. Elliott Smith ...

• Folk not just history in ‘Memoirs’

  Jan. 27, 2003 at midnight

  Folk music was born out of the strife of the working man. The spare, socially-conscious songs, played mostly on acoustic guitar, grew up in the Dust Bowl. They got taken ...

• UCLA at Sundance

  Jan. 16, 2003 at midnight

  Usually when a student tells a professor that he’s skipping class to watch some movies and go to a party, you don’t expect the professor to be very impressed. That ...