Will Wolfsalu

November 30, 2006

Great Moments in Punditry(Part 2)

By Will Wolfsalu

After several years of pursuit and negotiation, UCSB Arts & Lectures achieved the unthinkable: They booked funnyman Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" for a night of stand-up in the Thunderdome (his only West Coast ap...

November 9, 2006

“Borat” Reviewings

By Will Wolfsalu

"High five!" Against all odds, "Borat!: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" has swept the box office, earning the honor of being one of the few great movies to come from a TV cha...

November 2, 2006

Honor the Warrior

By Will Wolfsalu

"Whether revered or reviled in their lifetimes, history's movers framed their questions in ways that were entirely disrespectful of conventional wisdom. Civilization has always advanced in the shimmering wake of its disc...

October 19, 2006

Revenge Is Sweet

By Will Wolfsalu

UCSB is no stranger to concerts, but it's a stranger to the stranger side of music.

October 12, 2006

In Full Bloom

By Will Wolfsalu

Following a week of promotion about UCSB and Santa Barbara, the “Peony Pavilion” opened Friday night at the Lobero Theatre to a sold-out house, one of the most diverse the Lobero has ever seen, dressed in eve...

October 5, 2006

Flower Power

By Will Wolfsalu

To glean some insight into the Peony Pavilion, Artsweek interviewed the man responsible for bringing it to Santa Barbara: Pai Hsien-yung. Also known as Kenneth Pai, he is a prominent Chinese-American scholar, thinker and...

June 28, 2006

Summer Loving

By Will Wolfsalu

The Arts & Lectures planners haven't just assembled a summer of cost-effective entertainment. Each film planned is a serious critique of media, racism, imperialism and war in the United States and abroad.

May 25, 2006

Gypsy Kings

By Will Wolfsalu

"I am the champion of champions," Uncle Refet said, the 70-something self-proclaimed "King of Disco" and citizen of Shutka, a tiny Roma town in Macedonia.

May 18, 2006

Fighting Dirty

By Will Wolfsalu

Cory Booker is a 32-year-old Yale Law grad, Rhodes scholar, college football star and hopeful future Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a city with one of the highest poverty and crime rates in America. Booker's opp...

May 18, 2006

Right to Remain Silent

By Will Wolfsalu

At 9 a.m. on an overcast Saturday morning, deep in Ellison Hall - the citadel of the UCSB Film Studies Dept. - the organizers of the Reel Loud Film Festival met for this year's selection day. This is the festival's 15th ...

May 18, 2006

Reel To Reel

By Will Wolfsalu

Reel Loud showcases a film selection as diverse as the wildest minds of the student body. Crossing over genres ranging from tragic drama to uproarious comedy, the festival entries include shorts about dance, betrayal, mi...

May 4, 2006

Fit for a Queen

By Will Wolfsalu

"Kings and Queen" follows the lives of two former lovers over the period of a week. Nora (Emmanuelle Devos) is a successful, but icy, single mother working at a trendy Parisian art gallery. She returns home to the countr...

April 27, 2006

Silent Hill | Night of the Living Video Game

By Will Wolfsalu

The recently released horror movie "Silent Hill" came at the crest of a small media furor. Ever since the film's announcement, the fans of the video game it was adapted from have created an avalanche of anticipation, sur...