Arts

As Halloween approaches, many activities will be held that will allow you to get your costumes out and your scream on. Here are just a few of the events taking place this weekend that will enable people of all ages to have some fun. So, finish those final touches on your costume and stay tuned to the Mustang Daily next week for more Halloween enjoyment.

The Bradbury Press, who have been compared to Dave Matthews Band and the Counting Crows, will bring their soulful sounds to UU Hour today at 11 a.m.

“Praised at once for their intelligent lyrics and their pop sensibilities, The Bradbury Press have the uncanny ability to make thought-provoking music that sounds familiar the first time you hear it,” according to the band’s Web site, www.

I wake up each morning to several reminders that I’m living in a foreign country. I look out my shutter-lined window and see the Mole Antonelliana, probably the most famous symbol of Torino. I lace up my shoes, as the regular flip-flops have been completely ditched since my arrival to Italy, and begin my trek to school.

Before he became a filmmaker, Greg Schell was a kid and a surfer. Like many young surfers, he was inspired by the plethora of great surf movies of the late ’60s and early ’70s. One of them was “Endless Summer,” the timeless surf odyssey made by renowned filmmaker Bruce Brown.

Haven Kimmel didn’t say her first words until she was almost 3 years old. When she finally spoke, the first words out of her mouth were “I’ll make a deal with you.” Fortunately for her readers, she “had saved up a fair amount of words as a result,” she said.

In society, opera is viewed as a high-class activity, complete with orchestras, highly-trained singers, actors and elaborate sets. This Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m., students have the chance to go see the famous opera “Hansel and Gretel” for only $10, put on by the Pacific Repertory Opera at the Performing Arts Center.

He is enigmatic, enchanted and envied. He is known as a bootlegger, a murderer and an Oxford man. Rumors swirl about his background, yet socialites flock to his glittering soirees. “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

To the band members of Frame of Mind, music is not only their job, it is a way of life. On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Frame of Mind is bringing their eclectic style of music and life to Frog and Peach at 9:30 p.m.

The band, which started in Southern California, considers itself a jam rock ‘n’ roll band, said Obie Scott, 33, the guitarist and one of the vocalists.

Until about two weeks ago, I had heard of Mariee Sioux more times than I had ever listened to Mariee Sioux. By the time I was curious enough to listen to her music, she had slipped out of town on a journey with experimental folk group Brightblack Morning Light.

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I Hate The Library
By Red Bull-drinking Pajama Clad Student

I hate you, library. I want to go home and go to bed. Coming here would remind me of reluctantly attending an appointment for a root canal, if root canals were accompanied by a tribe of muscular, unbathed Amazon women heaving textbook after five-pound textbook at my head, and backdropped by a symphony of fork-on-plate grinding and chalkboard-chalk squeaking.

The restaurant was busy and bustling, filled with conversations, with people coming and going and with smells of epicure wafting from the kitchen. As the waiter brought yet another carafe of white “vino” to the table, I couldn’t help but notice how fast this pinot grigio had snuck up on me.