Jessica Jardine

April 3, 2003

Artsweek Over Broadway

By Jessica Jardine

While the majority of Gauchos packed into clubs with titles like "La Boom" and "Papas and Beer" over Spring Break, Artsweek took a turn for all things geeky and visited every over-the-top theater major's avenue of dreams...

April 3, 2003

Uh, Exactly How Hip Are You?

By Jessica Jardine

1. Apparently, a hipster uses words like "deck" (meaning cool) and "fin" (meaning uncool). Artsweek has yet to pass the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" phase of "cowabunga" and "totally tubular, dude."

March 7, 2003

Tour-du-Fest

By Jessica Jardine

For most cinephiles scattered across the country, film festivals are a far-off notion, tucked away among the palm trees of L.A. or the ski slopes of Aspen. Not so, in Santa Barbara's case...

March 7, 2003

Ten Tear-jerking Years of Tibet

By Jessica Jardine

Arriving at the premiere of "Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion," was already an overwhelming experience. The film festival, thus far, had consisted of mostly filled theaters and complacent audiences.

February 27, 2003

Waking the Complacent Consumer

By Jessica Jardine

It's hard to imagine hip hop poet/actress/playwright Sarah Jones ever not commanding the spotlight. She's one of those people who dominates conversation, but for all the right reasons.

February 27, 2003

The Postal Service | Give Up | Sub Pop

By Jessica Jardine

Packed with distinctively '80s retro beeps, boops and clicks, this album so marvelously finds the pulse on electronica's ever-frigid wrist.

February 20, 2003

Old School | School is in Session

By Jessica Jardine

It's not often that bottom-feeding college entertainment journalists receive phone calls from high-powered film studios begging to wine and dine them, screen advance copies of upcoming films and hold an open panel discus...

February 13, 2003

Working With Wonka

By Jessica Jardine

Talking to Mel Stuart is like chancing upon the grandpa you always wished you had. That is, if your grandpa had directed one of the most imaginative and highly whacked out films ever made, "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Fa...

February 6, 2003

Add a Little Spice to Make Things Nice

By Jessica Jardine

Pepper is signed to Volcom Entertainment and consists of Bret Bollinger on bass and vocals, KaleoWassman on guitar and vocals, and Yesod Williams on drums. Their "Kona-dub-rock," as it's been coined, melts'80s influences...

February 4, 2003

Living Room Struggles to Find New Home

By Jessica Jardine

Located at 430 S. Fairview Ave., in the Airport Plaza, the alcohol- and drug-free venue will need to clear out so that the property owner, ORIX Equity Development of Chicago, can erect a large office complex on the site.

January 29, 2003

If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get out of Canada!

By Jessica Jardine

Besides being at the forefront of yet another recent musical movement, the Canadian quartet Hot Hot Heat just might be able to break Artsweek's habit of cracking totally unfounded Canadian jokes on the basis of them bein...

January 23, 2003

Vegan Punks AFI bid Farewell to The Living Room

By Jessica Jardine

AFI has earned a devout following after six independent releases and has changed its sound, as well as its lineup, significantly over the last decade.

January 16, 2003

Nevermind the Fishnets

By Jessica Jardine

This book is a collection of photographs by Jim Jocoy, a teenager living in the Bay Area at the time, who became deeply enraptured by the burgeoning California punk rock scene.

January 16, 2003

January 16-23, 2003

By Jessica Jardine

The greatest action movie ever made is, in fact, not "Die Hard III," but "Seven Samurai" by Akira Kurosawa. Filmed in 1954, this epic tale is at the top of every critic's list and has newly translated subtitles that bett...

December 5, 2002

Jessica Jardine’s Top Five

By Jessica Jardine

Celebrity I'm Not Ashamed to be Infatuated With - Conan O'Brien. He's given us Triumph the Insult Dog, "The String Dance," Jesus Christ sports action figurines and an all-out war with Michael Bolton.

November 21, 2002

Alphabet Soup

By Jessica Jardine

Blackalicious further embodies this branch with their 2002 release, Blazing Arrow, and Artsweek catches the group's lyricist, Gift of Gab, as he strolls down Telegraph Ave.