Segerstrom Hall

This Tuesday, marks the end of the two-month-long celebration of Chinese art, music, and tradition, Ancient Paths, Modern Voices: A Festival Celebrating Chinese Culture, with a sizzling concert with 22-year-old pianist Yuja Wang and the Shanghai Symphony (one of China’s oldest orchestras) at Segerstrom Hall. Carnegie Hall, which you all have probably have heard of, is actually partnering and collaborating with the Sergestrom Hall to bringing the special event to the OC so this is definitely something not to miss.

Yuja Wang

I never heard of the pianist but after watching the videos I am in awe! Her playing is unreal…just look at her hands!!

pay attention to her left hand

YUJA WANG AND THE SHANGHAI SYMPHONY
Orange County Performing Arts Center’s Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall,
at Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 8 p.m.
Long Yu, Conductor
Yuja Wang, Piano
The Shanghai Symphony

I will be there Tuesday hopefully with some friends so we’ll dish out a review of our awesome classical experience ASAP!

At your service,
Alex the intern (BRCM), guest contributor

If you have not seen HBO’s incredible 24/7 series then you can click the image above to witness how a documentary series is done. Episode 4 was the finale that was filmed a week before the fight all the way up to the weigh-in at MGM last Friday

Below is an ESPN post fight interview. This is going to come off funny to all the FIlipinos everyone. The Filipino accent has now been made famous since he has stepped onto the scene. We’ll take that as a win for culture progression.

Purple Rice Sushi was also out in Vegas this past weekend for our good friend Jeanx2/Sandra’s wedding. As soon as we get a hold of the pictures from Saturdays beautiful wedding, we will post them up. Congrats to Jean and Sandra on a fun wedding day. The video montage was classic! Thanks.

-Conrad

Yes thats Phil himself ready to cut some flesh.

Chef Kyle had to stop by to check out the scene.

Game time.

Nerds.

Rodeo Luigi.

Hello. Kitty.

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We get to play too.

Thanks for the souvenir Phil!

Rock on.

Queen performance (Phils BBQ Halloween Party) from conrad/rick alberto on Vimeo.

Nothing but the utmost respect to Phils BBQ. Great food. Great people. He is They are the American Dream.

I know we are in the business of sushi but to give our clients and viewers an insight of what we are into when prepping in the kitchen or working in the office, I thought it was only appropiate to show you what type of music we listen to. I am by all means not a professional writer but I do have strong music views, especially when it comes to hip-hop or just good music in general. So anyways…after listening to the Kid Cudi album pretty much everyday since it came out, I had to write a little review about it.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past 3 years, you had to have come across Kid Cudi’s infectious ‘Day n Nite’ single that steamrolled its way from the internet highway onto your radio waves. He made all the proper career moves from releasing a great single to catching the attention of Kanye West to releasing a track on the Transformers 2 OST while at the same time keeping close to his fans on his twitter page. I must admit, with the amount of anticipation and hype surrounding this young man, I had doubts on his debut. Before the album even dropped, I firmly believed that it was going to be a make or break situation for Cudi. If the album was a flop (sales-wise and content-wise) he would fall off the map and be known as just a one hit wonder.

So how did he do? Pretty damn good.  He took the Day n Nite vibe and ran with it. When I mean ran, I mean he ran really really far. Like out of this universe.  So what do you classify this as? Emo Rap? Sure why not. But by all means this is not a negative connotation but the only way to really describe such an honest album.  I had to even reassure my opinion with fellow Cudi listeners. Seems like everyone I spoke to had their own personal attachment to a song’s verse or even a chorus. Let’s admit it. We are growing tired of the typical ‘bragadocious’ rap. Cudi’s timing is impeccable. Well done.

In a time when record sales are scarce and competition is getting fierce (Drake’s mixtape rerelease, Jay-Z’s BP3 and Raekwon’s classic release), the kid from Cleveland did quite well selling over 100k in its first week. Not bad for a kid who started off working retail at the Bape store in New York.

Kid Cudi’s Man On The Moon album gets a 4 out of 5 nigiri.