Druthers
Hiatus picks the the Week’s Best Bets
Zach Galifianakis
4th & B / April 11 / 7 p.m. / $35
Underground Greek-American comedians are hard to come by,
but fortunately Los Angeles-based bearded man Zach Galifianakis fills that need
Friday night at 4th & B for those of drinking age. His antics vary in
taste, from his penchant for telling jokes while playing somber chords on the
piano to his self-referential and awkwardly explicit humor. The man has done it
all: appeared with Will Oldham in Kanye West’s video “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” on
his farm in
sexually harassed Michael Cera in a fake interview and convinced everyone that
he has a hillbilly brother named Seth. If you’re lucky, he might even make fun
of you at his show. (CK)
“Bicycle Thieves”
MCASD / April 10 / 7 p.m. / $5
Sixty years since its release, Vittorio De Sica’s “Bicycle
Thieves” remains one of film’s towering classics. Taking place in postwar
this neorealist drama centers on a father and son searching the
poverty-stricken streets of
for the elder’s bicycle, a necessary tool if he is to find work. The two
stumble through an endless parade of the fellow downtrodden and urban piranhas
exploiting others’ loss for personal gain. De Sica carves out a cinematic
masterpiece without the use of A-list actors (using all amateurs, a staple of
neorealist cinema), showy camera moves and contrived setups; the time, place
and situation are drama enough to hold you to its moving, near-bittersweet
climax. It is a film dedicated to the everymen who can only rely upon
themselves and those honest few around them to survive when troubled times
spell social danger. (CM)
Exit Strategy
This Week on Campus
“National Treasure 2”
Price Center Theater
April 10, 6 & 9 p.m.
$3
Trash talk & more
Che Cafe
April 11,
TBA
Career Soldiers & more
Che Cafe
April 12,
$5
Scout Niblet & more
Che Cafe
April 13,
$6
“The Lives of Others”
SSB 104
April 14,
FREE
Kenny Eng
Espresso Roma
April 14,
FREE
“27 Dresses”
Price Center Theater
April 15,
FREE
The New Amsterdams
Porter’s Pub
April 15,
FREE
“Love Actually”
Price Center Theater
April 16,
FREE
