Life & Arts

In the Westlake District of Los Angeles — to be specific — Hayworth Theatre, it is more than acceptable to show up wearing jeans and an un-ironed shirt. The seats are worn, the drinks are expensive and the bathrooms lack toilet paper. The venue is fitting for its current running show: “SILENCE! The Musical.” It is the unauthorized parody of “Silence of the Lambs.” The play is a … [Read more...] about SILENCE! Lambs talk dirty

Making friends and using my words: both are separate elementary-school concepts that, at firstseem to require common sense rather than courage. But that’s where you’re wrong, dear reader. This is my third column; I feel like I can call you that now. As a senior, it’s especially difficult to venture into making new friends at Pepperdine. I have that wonderful level of comfort … [Read more...] about Making friends and giving voice

    The Pepperdine Improv Troupe, known as PIT, has been running at Pepperdine for 13 years and is known for drawing in packed audiences. PIT has enjoyed suc- cess as one of Pepperdine’s fastest grow- ing organizations in popularity, changing their venue from the HAWC to Elkins Auditorium last year because of the size of the crowds it attracted. However, there is … [Read more...] about Meet this year’s PIT improv masters, and guess what makes them tick

This year, Pepperdine’s own Kayla Brown competed in her second Miss Malibu pageant. Recently, the Graphic caught up with Kayla to learn more about her experiences competing in the pageant world. Q: When and how did you get started with pageants? A: About a year ago, a pageant scout dropped off some Miss Malibu flyers by my job. [With] the combination of peer pressure from my … [Read more...] about Q&A with Miss Malibu competitor

  All the multipurpose business of last week struck up a conversation between lucky me and quite the stud. He started to tell me of a world he envisioned where companies sell large, reusable containers for their goods to be restocked with their product by customers at the store in the fashion of Dr. Bronner’s advice. Thus, soda makers, beer brewers, shampoo formulators … [Read more...] about All the small things: Imagine a world…