A curious thing happened last Thursday when I bought a $2 water bottle at the Santa Barbara Bowl: The vendor removed the cap, threw it away and handed me a now-decapitated bottle of Dasani.
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In David Koepp's "Ghost Town," at least five characters look into the distance and try, unsuccessfully, to hold back tears.
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Diane English's "The Women," a less catty, more sappy remake of the 1939 George Cukor classic, plays out like a "Sex and the City" episode that got watered-down with excessive life lessons. There is n...
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“Inspired by true events” is usually code for, “inspired by other terrible horror movies.” Although “The Strangers” does feature this clichéd, questionable dis...
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On May 5, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor announced that the band's latest album, The Slip, was available as a free download, an act that's about as charitable as donating a blank CD to your roo...
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Hollywood is on a mission to prove that number-crunching career women lead unfulfilling lives, at least until they quit their jobs and settle down with The One. This time around, it's Cameron Diaz who...
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William Tell, the former rhythm guitarist of Something Corporate, graced Storke Plaza on Tuesday with a fittingly corporate rock performance. It couldn't have been easy for him to leave behind a piano...
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Despite what its sexy previews suggest, Justin Chadwick's "The Other Boleyn Girl" leaves audiences with the cinematic version of blue balls.
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It would be easy to dismiss Jack Johnson's latest album, Sleep Through The Static, as a rip-off of his three previous platinum releases, but that is beside the point.
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Gender was just about all that the speakers in last Saturday's "Creative Forces: Women in the Biz" panel at the Lobero Theatre had in common, for their stories were as diverse as their individual craf...
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"Cate who?" asked my roommates on Saturday night, before I left for the Arlington Theatre to watch Cate Blanchett stroll down the red carpet. Blanchett is not the most glamorous or spotlight-seeking a...
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According to the girls yelling in my ear all night at the Hub on Nov. 16, Teddy Geiger is hot.
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If the sight of blood alone were enough to frighten movie audiences, maybe the vampire flick "30 Days of Night" would have seemed scarier.
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I'm sick of reading all these complaints about the Hump.
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"Across the Universe" is both a film and a time capsule, allowing our own jaded generation to experience what it felt like to live through the idealistic 1960s. The film - a musical in which people be...
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“dusty rusty crusty musty ass california hills”
“frowning in plaid (haunted radios, bird bones + anthropomorphized wind)”
“warming my hands on bridges i’ve burnt”
“songs that make me see god”
“My Playlist #236”
“classy wine moment and intellectual conversation”
“90s heroin chic model off duty”
“tweet tweet bird emoji map emoji”
“not my circus, not my monkeys”
“a grave is probably cheaper than an apartment”
“ATE THESE BITCHES LEFT NO CRUMBS / DID IT IN DESIGNER PUMPS”
