Parting Words from Graduating Artsweek Staff, Part 2

INCOMING EDITOR ‘HELLO’: AUDREY BACHELDER Dear Gauchos, I am so happy and honored to be your Artsweek Editor for the 2014-2015 year. I pledge to fill up these Thursday pages with clever st...
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Alpha Phunk Talks Writing, Friendship and Jazz

A French drummer and an American guitarist walk into a bar — a coffee bar that is — and sit down to discuss their band, Alpha Phunk. After playing together for less than a year, the group has clin...
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Artsweek Talks with I.V. Band Adventure Dogs

  Roxanne McNally & Tina Petrosian   Staff Writer       “Did anyone break any strings last night?” Adventure Dogs’ bassist, Michael Johansson, asked his fellow band ...
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Pollock Screens Restored Classic: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’

Pollock Theater brought “Lawrence of Arabia” back to the big screen for a nearly-full house last Tuesday night as part of their “Future of the Past” film series. The event, as well as the “F...
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Local Variety Show’s Live Event Will Raise Funds for KCSB

KCSB is teaming up with Proboscis Radio Theater to host a benefit performance by the variety radio show “Live from the Piano Kitchen” this Saturday, Feb. 2 at 10 p.m. in Girvetz Hall, room 1004. ...
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Shrunken Heads’ ‘Cabaret’ is a Seductive Success

I walked into Lotte Lehman Concert Hall on Friday, Jan. 18 expecting to sit in the seats I had once sat in as a freshman taking Music 15. To my surprise, everybody was ushered toward the stage. Behind...
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A&L Winter Shows Have Something for Everyone

Are you interested in seeing your celebrity idols speak? Do you enjoy feeling fancy by attending sit-down musical concerts? Are you taking Dance 45? Look no further than UCSB’s Arts & Lectures t...
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Artsweek’s End of the Quarter Picks–‘Border Radio’ Film Screening – I.V. Theatre 2 – Thur. Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m.

KCSB-FM starts off this year’s “Popped Culture: Radio Goes to the Movies” film series on Thursday, Nov. 29 with a free screening of “Border Radio” (1987) at 7:30 p.m. in I.V. Theater 2. A Q&...
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Artsweek’s End of the Quarter Picks–Spoken Word Performer Mayda Del Valle – Muddy Waters – Thurs. Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m.

Spoken word artist Mayda Del Valle will perform at Muddy Waters Café in a free MultiCultural Center event on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. Three UCSB students — third-year CCS literature and art ...
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Community ‘Chills’ in Isla Vista Parks

Isla Vista’s seventh annual Chilla Vista festival took place at Ansiq’ Oyo’ and People’s Parks yesterday, providing locals with an afternoon of live music and environmentally minded entertainm...
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Protest Highlights Concerns Over Oil Policies

Associated Students’ Environmental Affairs Board organized a silent walk through campus yesterday to commemorate last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill and protest U.S. dependence on foreign oil....
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EENG Competes in Final Tier to Win $100k

Nonprofit UCSB student organization Environmental Education for the Next Generation is eligible to win $100,000 in the Dockers “Wear the Pants” contest. Founded by UCSB students in 2009, the EENG ...
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