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October 18, 2012

David Byrne and St. Vincent Bring Their Strange Love to Santa Barbara

By Demi Anter

On Thursday, Oct. 11, the Arlington Theatre was host to two powerful performers for an Arts & Lectures event. Talking Heads’ frontman David Byrne and indie art rock goddess St. Vincent (a.k.a. Annie Clark) teamed u...

October 18, 2012

Whose Live? Improv Thrills Granada Once Again

By Audrey Bachelder

Sitting in his white American Eagle tee and faded jeans, UCSB first-year Alex Eisenhart found himself wishing he had worn fancier clothes. He was, after all, sitting in $80 first-row seats at Arts and Lectures’ present...

October 18, 2012

Birds of Chicago and Sean Hayes Jam at SOhO

By Demi Anter

A mostly young, scattered-with-40-and-50-somethings audience was pleased last Friday night at SOhO in downtown Santa Barbara when American roots band Birds of Chicago and reggae-rock-soul musician Sean Hayes took the sta...

October 18, 2012

Lebowitz Satirizes Variety of Topics at Campbell

By Emily Hunt

Author, social commentator and satirist Fran Lebowitz took Campbell Hall’s stage on Friday night with a cocky shrug of her oversized blazer. Although “An Evening with Fran Lebowitz” was the seasoned New Yorker’s ...

October 18, 2012

Film Based in Isla Vista Will Premiere Tonight

By Corie Anderson

If you’ve ever wanted to see the streets of Isla Vista on the big screen, today is your chance. Writer/director Peter Iliff and producer Richard Halsey — both UCSB alumni — will be bringing their independent featur...

October 18, 2012

Celtic Band Revitalizes ‘the American Story’

By Audrey Bachelder

It started with an idea: on tour in Ohio, Celtic band Ensemble Galilei sat down one night and talked about what was important to them. “[We talked about] how we, as a country, seemed to have forgotten ourselves,” sai...

October 12, 2012

Folk Bands Set to Wow SB Tomorrow

By Demi Anter

This Friday, Oct. 12, two fantastic performances will grace the SOhO stage in downtown Santa Barbara starting at 9:30 p.m.: Sean Hayes and Birds of Chicago. Headliner Sean Hayes is a seasoned performer with influences th...

October 11, 2012

Cool Openers Rock Velvet Jones with The Wombats

By Victoria Essien

Teeny bop fan-boys and fan-girls from as far as Los Angeles County invaded Santa Barbara Saturday night to see Liverpool’s finest, The Wombats, perform at Velvet Jones. The Britpop band was accompanied by fellow United...

October 11, 2012

Wit and Talent: Wainwright Charms Campbell Hall

By Lalita Stone

Rufus Wainwright, dubbed by Elton John as “the greatest songwriter on the planet,” might just be so. Wainwright joined the music industry in 1998 and reached No. 24 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers as well as being n...

October 11, 2012

The Lumineers Inspire Joy and Reverence at the Lobero

By Carly Bonilla-Flores

On Friday, October 5th, Denver- based American-folk band The Lumineers performed a sold-out show at the Lobero Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara. Although the band’s self-titled debut album was just released in April, ...

October 4, 2012

Welcoming Back UCSB with Flying Lotus

By Nicole Valencia

All of us FlyLo fans were pretty excited when he finally threw us a bone and released a short film on his website, featuring a new track off of his 2012 album Until the Quiet Comes (which was actually released this Tuesd...

October 4, 2012

Web Series Improve Students’ Filmmaking Chops

By Corie Anderson

In the past few years, rapidly changing technology and the exponential growth of the Internet has opened up the film and media industry like never before. Production is cheaper and more accessible, exhibition is at our f...

October 4, 2012

Stone Foxes and Givers & Takers Rock SOhO

By Nick Priedite

Last Sunday, SOhO was transformed into a grimy country blues bar reminiscent of Bob’s Country Bunker, chain link fence and all. With gritty guitar licks, powerful vocals, bluesy rhythm and harmonica blasts that would m...

October 4, 2012

Food Confessions is Entertaining and Relatable

By Audrey Bachelder

Last week I watched “Food Confessions” and had quite the yummy evening. Written by all-star comedian Nancy Nufer, who also portrays the homemaker role in the play, it is a banquet of relatable characters discussing t...

October 4, 2012

Campus To Screen Rare Art Films in Warhol Series

By Nicole Valencia

It’s difficult to hear the name Warhol and not immediately conjure up images of Campbell soup cans, screen prints of Marilyn Monroe’s smirking face and the tragically beautiful public persona that was Edie Sedgwick. ...

September 27, 2012

FYF Fest

By Ina Ensslin

Dusty hipsters covering up expensive designer outfits with one dollar bandanas, Tobias Funke conducting social experiments in person and lots of music — this is the atmosphere of this year’s FYF Fest held at Los Ange...