Arts

The epic monster film “Cloverfield,” the chick flick “27 Dresses” and Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream” all come to theaters this weekend.

It looked like the opening night of a “Harry Potter” film, with hundreds of fans lined up around the block, eagerly waiting to escape the chilly night air. The cause: Tiger Army headlined a show at Downtown Brewing Co.

Tickets had sold out early Wednesday afternoon.

The Art Center’s newest exhibit will have its opening from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

“Caution: Art Zone” is a combination of pieces from artists belonging to the Art Center’s Central Coast Watercolor Society, Central Coast Printmakers and Central Coast Craftmakers groups.

After Apple announced its entrance into the online movie rental market Tuesday, other services like Amazon Unbox and Netflix finally felt a bit uneasy. With competition finally in place in the market, the services are starting to each offer their own prices and features, ultimately making it more difficult for you to pick one to use.

The premise of “Jackass the Game” for Playstation 2 is simple: “Jackass” director Jeff Tremaine is in the hospital for a scrotum-related accident. While he’s out of commission you have to help the “Jackass” boys complete their stunts so the show will get another season on MTV.

“Suppose Iraq invaded America. An Iraqi soldier was on a tank passing through an American street, waving his gun at people, threatening them, raiding and trashing houses. Would you accept that?” asks an Iraqi imam in Steve Connors and Molly Bingham’s unprecedented documentary, “Meeting Resistance.

For those of you who happen to carry a copy of my column on your person at all times (I know I do – it makes it easier to quote myself), and happen to see me on campus, feel free to shove it down my throat. Yes, this week I will be eating my words.

If you read last week’s column (hi, Mom!), you might remember my assertion that any show with a “VH1” logo on the bottom right corner is complete trash and ought to be deleted from every TiVo in America.

The band’s mantra, “Tiger Army Never Die,” couldn’t be more fitting. With a rocky history that would have meant the end of less-determined groups, California’s Tiger Army has persevered and is once again bringing their own unique brand of punk rock to San Luis Obispo.

Music fans will have a chance to experience a decade’s worth of vibes in an unprecedented tour making a stop on campus tonight. What makes the event even sweeter is a deal benefiting students.

The Monterey Jazz Festival’s 50th Anniversary Band will play tonight at 8 p.

The birth of your first child. A new career. The sudden death of your parents in a hydrofoil crash. Some things carry such weight that they cannot help but define your very existence. Events that carry more significance in my life than the release of a new record from The Magnetic Fields can be cataloged in a short list of exactly zero items.

Childhood is a time of immense hopes and insecurities, a period of great vulnerability in which the acceptance of both peers and adults takes on an almost seismic importance. Few knew this better than novelist Robert Cormier, who, beginning with his 1975 book “The Chocolate War,” brought a more psychologically nuanced sensibility, as well as a decidedly darker edge, to the young adult genre.