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NBC’s ‘Community’: Worth Joining

April 5, 2012 by

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

April 5, 2012 by

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

March 8, 2012 by

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

March 8, 2012 by

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

March 8, 2012 by

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

March 8, 2012 by

“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

March 8, 2012 by

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

March 1, 2012 by

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

March 1, 2012 by

“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

March 1, 2012 by

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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Movies to See in Isla Vista and Beyond: “Young Adult” and the Highly Anticipated “Project X” Bring the Crazy

March 1, 2012 by

Yes, it’s cold out. But this is not a reason to stay at home. To take a well deserved break from your studies, you should venture from your cozy apartment and see two films that will set the tone fo...
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‘Vagina Monologues’ Return to UCSB

March 1, 2012 by

After weeks of spotting an inconspicuously colored, human-sized vagina around campus — an image that has probably loomed in many students’ minds — the “Vagina Monologues” finally hit the sta...
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Getting ‘Entangled’: An Interview with Lila Rose Kaplan

March 1, 2012 by

Artsweek’s Audrey Bachelder recently sat down with playwright-in-residence Lila Rose Kaplan to talk about her new play Entangled, which premeires at UCSB this week. Check back for complete coverage ...
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Exploring a Game of Chance: La Lotería at Gallery 479

February 23, 2012 by

Many of us are familiar with the Mexican bingo-style game Lotería, whether we played it at home with our families, at day-care with our childhood friends, or with classmates to learn basic Spanish vo...
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Artsweek Finds Light “In Darkness”

February 23, 2012 by

I’ve never been inside a sewer. I’ve never been trapped in complete blackness for over a year. I’ve never had to fear for my life every second. But after seeing “In Darkness,” I feel like I ...
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