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Minchin Impresses Lobero with Musicianship, Humor

On Wednesday, April 11, Australian comedian Tim Minchin traveled to the Lobero Theatre to entertain his fans with musical comedy. Minchin brought his signature mane of red hair, dark eye makeup, his p...
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New Documentary Explores Radio Activist’s Tragic Death

“Radio Bandido” is a recent documentary directed by Pepe Urquijo about the mysterious death of his friend Oscar Gomez in 1994. Gomez was a DJ at the UC Davis college radio station who came to visi...
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“Secretary”

I still don’t know how I feel about “Secretary.” I can’t call it a bad film, because it wasn’t. I can’t say it wasn’t well acted, because it was. I can’t say it was badly written. I ca...
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Adaptations & ‘The Hunger Games’: The Approach of a Former Pop Culture Purist

As an avid consumer of books and films, I’ve always been naturally drawn to film adaptations of books. But I have found many viewers do not realize just how involved and common the practice of trans...
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Horror Virtuoso Adam Green Debuts ‘Holliston’ Series

Earlier this week, horror wunderkind Adam Green screened the first and fourth episodes of his new TV series “Holliston” at the University of Southern California, ahead of its official premiere on ...
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NBC’s ‘Community’: Worth Joining

If you haven’t seen “Community” yet, stop what you’re doing and go watch it. NOW. I don’t care if you have to pay for Hulu+, that Netflix isn’t streaming it or that it’s getting harder t...
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Fans Enjoy Australian Twist on Ibsen

The city of Melbourne, Australia is particularly known for its amazing coffee and bustling art scene. Those are just two of the many reasons I chose to study abroad here in spring. In an attempt to ca...
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Art MFAs Share their Work in On-Campus Show

Last Friday, students and faculty visited Gallery 479 for the closing reception of the first year Studio Art graduate students’ “First Year Review.” The show was up for two weeks, and while it w...
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‘Entangled’ Premiers at UCSB

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 i...
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Just For Fun: Debatably The 11 Best Music Videos Ever

The following are a list of some of the most entertaining music videos. Including several genres and spanning many years, this list, compiled in no particular order, contains groundbreaking music vide...
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Scorsese’s Hugo Hits I.V. Theater

“What?! Martin Scorsese directed a kid’s movie?!” Don’t worry; your reaction is completely natural. Although you might be thinking that this Hugo kid must be secretly a kingpin involved in som...
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Mac Montgomery & the Family Band Ignite Isla Vista

Something major is about to happen in I.V., and Mac Montgomery & the Family Band are at the forefront of it. Twenty-one year old Mac Montgomery is not local; he’s not even a student at UCSB or a...
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UCSB Art Grads Coordinate Faculty Show

More than 10 years since their last collective art show, members of the UCSB Art Department Faculty exhibited selections from their oeuvres this past weekend at Uppur Bunk Collaborative Art Space in G...
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‘Bunraku’ Proves Puppets Aren’t Just for Little Kids

“Bunraku” is my favorite avant-garde, post-apocalyptic, kung fu, Western, noir, Socialist propaganda film I have ever seen. To put it in a word: awesome. Now, I don’t know if I’d necessarily c...
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Surfer Blood Makes Being Weird Cool at Velvet Jones

A Thursday night at Velvet Jones in downtown Santa Barbara already has the potential to lean towards absurdity. With sinister graphic art and an unimaginably cramped dance floor (due in large part to ...
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