A&E Briefs
By Daily Bruin Staff
May 22, 2002 9:00 p.m.
MUSIC
This Sunday and Monday UCLA will play host to the JazzReggae
Festival. Starting at noon on Sunday, Jazz Festival performers like
Christian McBride and We-Bop will be playing. For more info, call
their hotline at (310) 281-1150.
The international buzz band from Sweden, The Hives, are bringing
its rollicking brand of punk rock to the Roxy Theatre next Monday
and Tuesday. For more info, call (310) 276-2222.
The Key Club is hosting bands Formula, Plan R and Independent
this Friday. For more information, call (310) 786-1712.
Saturday, May 25, Rusted Root, a jam band in the vein of the
Grateful Dead, but with more world music influences, is coming to
the House of Blues. For more information, call (323) 848-5100.
FILM
Today and tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Campus
Events will be showing Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth”
in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. Tickets will be $2 at the door. For
more info, see www.campusevents.ucla.edu.
Tonight at James Bridges Theater, Sam Raimi
(“Spider-man” director) will be presenting as part of
the UCLA Film and Television Archives’ “The Movie That
Inspired Me” series, “The Treasure of Sierra
Madre” (1948). The film shows at 7:30 p.m. and Raimi will be
speaking afterward. Tickets are $7 for general admission and $5 for
students, seniors, kids and SAA members. The box office opens one
hour before showtime.
Tomorrow evening at the James Bridges Theater,
“Bilalian,” directed by alumnus Aminah Bakeer
Abdul-Jabbaar, will be showing at 7:30 p.m. for free. The movie is
a documentary that details the history of African American
Muslims.
ART
“Milton Avery: The Late Paintings,” an exhibit
featuring Avery’s work from the last 20 years of his life, is
at the UCLA Hammer museum now until Sept. 8. For more info, call
(310) 443-7000.
“Andy Warhol Retrospective” is an exhibition at the
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) featuring his paintings, drawings
and sculptures. For info on the exhibit schedule and ticket prices,
call (213) 621-2766.
COMICS
Writer/director/actor Kevin Smith will host an evening to help
veteran comic book writers and artists in need on May 31 at 7:30
p.m. at the Writers Guild Theater. To purchase the $15 tickets,
call (323) 658-6047 or (818) 761-3465.
