Now Look What You ‘Punk-Ass Biatches’ Made Us Do

We've all had weeks from hell. Six papers finished half-assedly minutes before they're due, your boss griped about deficient pieces of flair, and that girl you met in psych section, yeah, she's never ...
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Confronting the Real World

Graduating this spring has its perks: I didn't have to scrounge for another overpriced apartment in I.V., the enemy known as general education requirements will be forever wiped out and distant family...
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Don’t Talk to Me, I’m an iPod-aholic

You've seen 'em. They're everywhere. The kids with those white wires coming out of their ears, under vintage T-shirts, with the excess string wound around a tiny pack fastened to their belt.
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Get Lost!!!

A mishmash of anecdotes, East Coast-style songs and muddled Platonic philosophy forms the blandish meat of the Civilians' drama "Gone Missing," written and directed by Steven Cosson.
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Mazeltov!

On March 3-6, you better quit your kvetching, stock up on plenty of your bubbe's kugel and make the shlep downtown for the first annual Santa Barbara Jewish Film Festival (SBJFF).
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Interpol Live at SOMA

Hipsters fought among each other for position, pushing to get closer to the action as the SOMA stage filled with thick fog. Aphex Twin's "Milkman" cut out, a church organ sounded and five suits emerge...
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Teenage Angst Finds New Voice

Teenagers not yet old enough to buy cigarettes spill onto Hollywood Boulevard and wait for the opening bands to finish their sets and let headlining act Say Anything take the stage of the Knitting Fac...
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Ever Wonder How It Feels to Sell Your Soul on Facebook?

On Nov. 24, I signed up and received a Thefacebook account. I know that since July you've been logging on three times a day to check for "pokes," reading inane updates to your group's message board, a...
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Growing Up Incredible | Another Lesson from Pixar

Admit it. Ever since the first time you saw Adam West on "Batman," you've been dying to know: boxers or briefs? If Spiderman got stoned and opted for a night out with Mary Jane instead of fighting cri...
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Keaton Simons | Currently | Reprise

"My intention is to be honest with my music - not to be ashamed of anything and to turn myself inside out." So says up-and-coming blues artist Keaton Simons, yet after hearing his five-song EP.
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G. Love & Special Sauce | The Hustle | Brushfire

G. Love is back with his Special Sauce crew, who hustled and bustled to create a funky folk album, filled with easy grooves, harmonica-backed blues and Philly rap that pushes you to freestyle, even if...
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