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February 9, 2012

Kickstarter Helps the Starving Artist Creatively Succeed

By Howard Kahan

One could argue that artistic integrity no longer exists once you sell out. Those who agree could say mainstream is the antithesis to true art and creative expression. However, the opposition could argue that the creativ...

February 9, 2012

Santa Barbara International Film Festival Puts the Spotlight Back on Exceptional Short Films

By Darrell Hall

Short films have been marginalized for many years, considered easy to make and ‘‘primitive.’’ However, short films were the start of cinema and were respected during the early 20th century when visionaries such a...

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...

February 2, 2012

Artsweek Wants You … to Watch Foreign Films

By Damion Damaske

When people think about foreign films, there seems to be a lot of derision towards them: “I don’t like subtitles,” “Dubbing sounds weird,” “Only pretentious hipsters would watch them,” etc. While there is s...

February 2, 2012

UCSB’s Palladino Premieres Film at SBIFF

By Corie Anderson

Each winter, downtown’s historic movie theaters play host to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This year, SBIFF’s highlighted themes include Cinesonic (films about iconic musicians), Cinema Nouveau (film...

February 2, 2012

Take a Course in Laughology

By Damion Damaske

Stand-up comedy is not easy. It’s one of those art forms which seems readily accessible to anyone not already embedded in that world. “I can just go up on stage and say stuff? What’s so hard about that?” However,...

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 26, 2012

UCSB Poets Gather for First Annual A.S. Slam

By Howard Kahan

Overtime football playoffs be damned; there is poetry going on. On Sunday, approximately 150 people gathered in the Hub at UCSB for Associated Students Program Board’s first poetry slam showcase. The showcase featured ...

January 26, 2012

Word Farm Returns to SB

By Corie Anderson

Last weekend, the UCSB Film and Media Studies Department held its annual weekend-long screenwriting workshop: Word Farm. Each winter, professional writers in the film and television industries travel to Santa Barbara to ...

January 26, 2012

Say Hello to Sundance 2012

By Jaime Oliveira

This week I was privileged to attend the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah — but what made this such a privilege? Well, film festivals are perhaps the most important tools of the independent film industry. To m...

January 19, 2012

A&L, National Theatre Live are ‘Collaborators’

By Nicole Valencia

On what may have been the coldest Tuesday night yet of this winter season (quite atypical for Santa Barbara at a crisp 44 degrees), UCSB Arts and Lectures held National Theatre Live’s rebroadcast performance of the pla...

January 19, 2012

Raised by Pop-Culture: Why Remakes are Good

By Damion Damaske

January 19, 2012

Me, My Mom and ‘Mission Impossible 4’

By James Oliveira

What better time to hit the theaters than winter? With a lot of cheer and a lot of free time, these cold months are the ideal period to spend time with old friends and/or family by sitting down and watching a movie toget...

January 19, 2012

Searching for Character in Abrams’ ‘Alcatraz’

By Corie Anderson

On Monday, Fox aired its mid-series premiere of the J.J. Abrams-produced television series, “Alcatraz.” The show is the latest Abrams creation that attempts to balance the genres of character-driven serialized drama ...