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from Editor in Chief Alexander Rivera

Featuring food, travel, and FIDM’s fifth floor.

We narrow down 2014’s top 10 films from action to family friendly, and even comedy.

Look good through skin care, food, and fashion, and makeup.

A look back at the ledgendary Richard Avedon.

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THE 10 BEST MOVIES of 2014 Know some of 2014’s top 10 best Hollywood worthy films! From family friendly, to action, to comedy!

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estern pop,” said James Brooks of electronica band Elite Gym-

While heavily Korean American, the audience was also a fascinating mix of gay

nastics, who wrote an essay on K-pop for the influential music

website Pitchfork. The track stormed Asia — the offcial version

frank, the music is sometimes sort of beside the point. 2NE1 has laser-efficient

of the video where the nine girls dance around a clothing store

singles like the techno-saturated “Fire” and the blippy house hit “Go Away.”

clocking in at just over 70 million plays on YouTube. The song

K-Pop’s ballads are often treacly, but 2NE1’s are workable – the weeper “Lone-

topped South Korean pop charts for two months and made Girls’

ly” is self-aware enough to avoid camp.

Generation the first non-Japanese Asian girl group to top Japan’s

singles charts. It also set a template that, alongside a broad array of

stardom and aesthetic vision can outweigh the actual songs. When zipping over

peer acts like the more rap-inclined 2NE1 and dance-heavy group

mobile phones in four-minute video bursts, this isn’t a big deal. But at a major

Wonder Girls, suggested that South Korea’s pop music culture

two-hour L.A. headlining show, filler like a 10-minute DJ break and a Dodger

was coming into its own. Though the term “K-pop” is as reductive

Stadium-style “Kiss Cam” montage felt like a sugar crash.

as referring to diverse U.S. artists like Lady Gaga, Skrillex and Lil

Why anyone would ever settle for a white guy emoting on an acoustic guitar again

Wayne as “A-pop,” it captures the scope of the South Korean music

is beyond baffling (and there’s some free advice, “American Idol”). But more im-

celebrity scene. The overwhelmingly single-gender bands, cast by talent agencies

portantly, 2NE1’s chemistry made the spectacle click. They have an appealing

for Korean corporate label conglomerates like SM Entertainment and YG En-

way of subverting their roles in the band – the doe-eyed, 18-year-old Minzy turns

tertainment, created fierce and ever-evolving loyalties — imagine picking your

out to have dance moves to make Snoop Lion renounce Jah and come back to

favorite Beatle or Rolling Stone if there were 10 of them.

hip-hop; the brash Dara builds coy steam, but proves unattainably fierce.

Songs and especially videos were quickly passed over high-speed In-

Western audiences can sometimes lose the plot of hallyu, because to be

But sometimes they succumbed to the Gaga Problem – the size of their

This show was a test case of how K-Pop can play for a mixed American

ternet and mobile devices several times faster than what’s available in America.

crowd. While heavily Korean American, the audience was also a fascinating mix

Sites like AllKPop and magazines like KoreAm chronicled the exploits of the

of gay couples on date night and swag-happy hip-hop aesthetes.

young, fashionable and lightly transgressive stars — when GD&TOP and pop

singer Hyuna saw singles banned by South Korea’s major broadcasting networks,

frank, the music is sometimes sort of beside the point. 2NE1 has laser-efficient

that made for delicious scandal. In August, Billboard launched a K-Pop Hot 100

singles like the techno-saturated “Fire” and the blippy house hit “Go Away.”

chart to track the genre’s sales.

K-Pop’s ballads are often treacly, but 2NE1’s are workable – the weeper “Lone-

ly” is self-aware enough to avoid camp.

Why anyone would ever settle for a white guy emoting on an acoustic

Western audiences can sometimes lose the plot of hallyu, because to be

guitar again is beyond baffling (and there’s some free advice, “American Idol”).

But sometimes they succumbed to the Gaga Problem – the size of their

But more importantly, 2NE1’s chemistry made the spectacle click. They have an

stardom and aesthetic vision can outweigh the actual songs.

appealing way of subverting their roles in the band – the doe-eyed, 18-year-old

ping over mobile phones in four-minute video bursts, this isn’t a big deal. But at

Minzy turns out to have dance moves to make Snoop Lion renounce Jah and

a major two-hour L.A. headlining show, filler like a 10-minute DJ break and a

This show was a test case of how K-Pop can play for a mixed American crowd.

Dodger Stadium-style “Kiss Cam” montage felt like a sugar crash.

When zip-

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