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When Amber Steele, a Mills Dance Graduate student, gussies up for work, it is a two hour effort. Standing before a mirror, she covers her body with foundation. It is the only way she can capture that fresh corpse glow and make the blood smears visible from a distance.

Fox Searchlight Pictures I want to preface this piece by saying that I love Wes Anderson- I would even date him (hey Wes, I’m newly…

Mills was one of twelve venues chosen by the Phi Beta Kappa Society to be visited by the east coast dancer and choreographer, Gus Solomons Jr. Solomons was introduced last week to a Dance Improvisation class at Mills as "a person of whom you can ask anything at all because for fifty years he has been associated with any and all dance companies and dancers you may have heard of or seen.

With pitch-perfect comedy, hilariously heartbreaking characters and an almost uncomfortably honest approach to its teenage subject matter, "Rocket Science" may just be your new favorite movie. Sure it doesn't have the all-star celebrity line-up of "Knocked Up" or the multitude of penis pictures of "Superbad," but it has a poignancy that is more winning than any comedy this year.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) might be the least-seen San Francisco museum. Despite its convenient location and innovative exhibitions, even middle school field trips seem to avoid it. This does not mean it's something to avoid. YBCA's current major exhibition is called "Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible.

With a heightened pace and more intense storylines, ABC's so-called "dramedy," "Ugly Betty," is back for its sophomore season. In its first season, the show comically introduced unaesthetically pleasing assistant to the editor-in-chief of top fashion magazine, Mode, Betty Suarez (America Ferrera).