Demi Anter

March 8, 2012

‘Entangled’ Premiers at UCSB

By Demi Anter

Last week, “Entangled,” a new work about sibling relationships and quantum physics by playwright Lila Rose Kaplan, made its world premiere at UCSB’s Hatlen Theater. The play, which follows the intertwined stories o...

February 23, 2012

Exploring a Game of Chance: La Lotería at Gallery 479

By Demi Anter

Many of us are familiar with the Mexican bingo-style game Lotería, whether we played it at home with our families, at day-care with our childhood friends, or with classmates to learn basic Spanish vocabulary. Recently, ...

February 2, 2012

Groupwork: A Living Breathing Monster

By Demi Anter

Many people compare visiting a museum to visiting a church. A place that houses art becomes sacred somehow. It becomes a destination for people to observe carefully constructed historical and personal expressions in quie...

January 26, 2012

Young Virtuosos: Joy Kills Sorrow Plays Lobero

By Demi Anter

Last Saturday night, two phenomenal bands graced the Lobero Theatre’s stage as part of Lobero’s current “Sings Like Hell” series. Austin-based folk-rock band Wheeler Brothers opened for the up-and-coming bluegras...

January 12, 2012

Coachella Announces 2012 Line Up

By Demi Anter

So, the line up is out, and here’s what you’ve probably been hearing:   “I’ve seen so many of these bands already …” “Snoop and Dr. Dre? I’m gonna get so high.” “RADIOHEAD!” “Ugh, Florence, L...

November 9, 2011

Demi Anter and Chanel Miller: Spoken Word at UCSB

By Demi Anter

October 20, 2011

John Fleck Brings ‘Mad Women’ to UCSB

By Demi Anter

“You are a classy audience,” visiting professor and playwright Brighde Mullins began, standing in front of a minimal set consisting of glittery garments, mirrors, a wig, a leopard-print director’s chair and one sol...

October 20, 2011

Pulitzer Prize Winner Awes Campbell Hall

By Demi Anter

The Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Mary Oliver read poems spanning her roughly forty-year career to a packed Campbell Hall on Saturday night. The event drew a noticeably older crowd which was dotted with students,...

October 6, 2011

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

By Demi Anter

Hippies. Homeless. Hipsters. Heaven. These may seem like some incongruous terms, but they actually add up to produce one incredible thing: the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Hardly Strictly is a free festival put on...

October 6, 2011

Kingsley Proves “Yes” is Just Long Enough

By Demi Anter

On Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, “Yes is a long time,” a theater and dance production written by Sibyl O’Malley and directed by UCSB faculty member Mira Kingsley, opened for a three-night run at UCSB’s Hatlen Theater. ...

May 19, 2011

UCSB WORDistas Share Their Self-Love

By Demi Anter

Students from UCSB’s Women of Color Revolutionary Dialogues (WORD) group shared poetry, music, dance and videos in their “love, WORDistas” show at the MultiCultural Center Theater last weekend.

May 5, 2011

Q-Comm’s Annual Student Drag Show

By Demi Anter

  The Student Run Drag Show on April 28 — put on by the UCSB Associated Students Queer Commission — rocked my world in so many ways. It also led me to embrace the following:   1. Drag is the highest art for...

April 28, 2011

Fleet Foxes: Not So Helpless, Not So Blue

By Demi Anter

Fleet Foxes, the popular Seattle folk band, have a new album set to release on May 3, 2011. Helplessness Blues manages to retain the melodic harmonies and old time-y influences that made the band’s first album such a g...

March 4, 2011

Indie Bands To Make Appearance in Local Lounge

By Demi Anter

Folk rock groups Blvd Park and Musical Charis will perform in Goleta next week for their national tour.

March 3, 2011

Grammy Winner Comes to UCSB

By Demi Anter

I can say after witnessing the recent Grammy winner’s performance at Campbell Hall Sunday night, I now worship at the altar of Esperanza Spalding.

February 23, 2011

Scott-Heron, Jamie xx Are New Here

By Demi Anter

I’m New Here, the 2010 album by American spoken word artist and musician Gil Scott-Heron was remixed on Feb. 22 by Jamie Smith (a.k.a. “Jamie xx”) of the English indie trio The xx.