Campus Hosts Diverse Job-Hunting Bazaar
UCSB’s Career Services will host its biggest recruiting event of the quarter — the annual Fall Career Fair — today from 1 to 4 p.m. at Corwin Pavilion.
Armchair QB
There’s really no sports news today. So… how ’bout that NASCAR?
Just kidding. Fuck that.
Will The Real John Leguizamo Please Stand Up?
John Leguizamo is a complicated man, a man full of contradictions and seemingly mutually exclusive ideas. He has turned this premise into a long career as a character actor and performance artist.
Celebration To Kick Off With Rally, ‘Drag Bingo’
As part of the first annual Human Rights Week, UCSB is celebrating Queer Rights Day today.
Lovely, Flawed “Education” Shows a Young Life at a Crossroad ***
“An Education” puts forth the thesis that there are two roads to be traveled for a young girl on the cusp of womanhood: One involves pedophilia, con-artistry and glamour; the other, academia and a lifetime of loneliness.
A.S. Attempts to Ease ESS Concerns
The Associated Students Legislative Council discussed topics ranging from the efforts to save the Exercise and Sports Science Dept. to the campus wide teach-in during last night’s meeting.
Paradise, Lost: Artsweek Urges Audiences to Quickly “Retreat” *
What do you get when you bring together a huge cast, an overly invested writing team and an inexperienced director? A failed comedy. Were it not for the non-stop hilarity roll that is Vince Vaughn, “Couples Retreat” would have been a straight-up misery trip.
Shakira’s New Wolf Has Claws ****
After dominating the airwaves worldwide with her 2006 hit, “Hips Don’t Lie,” Colombian superstar Shakira is now looking to translate that success to dance floors with She Wolf. The new 12-track LP explores new territory for the artist, fixating around an electronic dance vibe while maintaining hints of Shakira’s signature fusion of Middle Eastern and Latin sounds. Throw Shakira’s witty lyrics into the mix, and you get pure pop perfection: She Wolf is loaded with club bangers and radio-ready hits.
Latest LP Unworthy of Kings **
You can say many things about the music performed by Kings of Convenience, but nobody would accuse the songs of not being pretty. Here, the duo rarely utilizes more than an acoustic guitar, a violin and their own vocal chords, but they seem to have found a formula for writing some of the most delicate and soothing music over the last few years. However, this formula seems to have become precisely the problem on their latest album, Declaration of Dependence. While any song picked at random from it would be a perfect lullaby, the project as a whole lacks any kick.
Legacy of Lincoln Lives on in Jones’ Latest Work
Last Tuesday night’s performance of “Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We Pray,” presented by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, marked Arts & Lectures’ first presentation at the Granada this season and served as an inspiring evening for dance theater in Santa Barbara.