Hiatus Picks the Week’s Best Bets
Matt Costa
The Casbah / Jan. 31 / 8:30 p.m. / $15
Orange County’s suburban fortress isn’t exactly what you’d imagine for a burgeoning singer-songwriter’s creative garden, but Matt Costa found a way to launch melodic musings off his beachside youth with second album “Unfamiliar Faces.” Costa unabashedly harkens back to old-school pop-rock sensibilities, with lilting piano and guitar chords, personal yet approachable lyrics and one hell of a knack at crafting a catchy refrain (just check out “Mr. Pitiful”). Delta Spirit opens the evening concert. (CM)
“Touch of Evil”
MCASD / Jan. 31 / 7 P.M. / $5
Your two impressions of Orson Welles are probably either that he was the groundbreaking filmmaker (“Citizen Kane”), or that he was a fat, drunk douche in commercials (see Youtube). What you probably don’t know is that he wasn’t just a one-hit wonder, proven with his 1958 noir gem “Touch of Evil.” Pre-NRA Charlton Heston is Mexican detective Ramon Vargas (oh, the sweet racial blindness of black-and-white film) who comes at odds with detective Harry Quinlan (Welles) over a murder in a seedy border town. Classic femme fatale Marlene Dietrich and legendary Janet Leigh add the woman’s touch to the psycho-sexual thriller, which features one of the most badass opening shots in the history of cinema. (CM)
This Week’s On-Campus Events
New Sounds From Oberlin
Mandeville
Center
Jan. 31, 8 p.m.
FREE
“30 Days of night”
Price Center Theater
Jan. 31, 6 & 9 p.m.
$3
Hollywood’s Africa
Geisel Library
Feb. 1, 9 a.m.
FREE
James burns
UCSD Bookstore
Feb. 1, 12 p.m.
FREE
“Bliss”
Center Hall
Feb. 1, 7 p.m.
FREE
Colin Armstrong
Espresso Roma
Feb. 4, 8 p.m.
FREE
“Rendition”
Price Center Theater
Feb. 5, 6 & 9 p.m.
$3
Zion I
Porter’s Pub
Feb. 5, 8 p.m.
FREE