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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 ...

January 19, 2012

‘The Artist’ is Golden Globe’s Silent Killer

By Emily Hunt

Lights, camera and, most importantly, action! In a cinematic world full of subtlety, nuance, mumblecore and scathing dialogue, Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist” proves that the good old-fashioned concept of story i...

January 12, 2012

A Letter From the Editor

By Madison Medeiros

Welcome back, everyone. I hope you all had a delicious winter break filled with fun and carelessness because I worked two jobs to afford living in this over-priced wasteland. But I’m not bitter. No my friends, I am enl...

January 12, 2012

‘Melancholia’: Delightfully Depressing and Unsettling

By Derek Boeckelmann

So apparently it’s the end of the world in a year or something. To prepare us for the inevitable, I appoint 2011’s “Melancholia” as mandatory viewing. When it premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the film ...

January 12, 2012

Coachella Announces 2012 Line Up

By Demi Anter

So, the line up is out, and here’s what you’ve probably been hearing: “I’ve seen so many of these bands already …” “Snoop and Dr. Dre? I’m gonna get so high.” “RADIOHEAD!” “Ugh, Florence, L...

January 12, 2012

Raised by Popular Culture: The Worst Movie of 2011

By Damion Damaske

Confession time: I don’t see a lot of movies out in theaters. Tickets are expensive, I am poor and I’m also terrible at torrenting, so I am selective about what movies I see on the big screen. What I am trying to say...

January 12, 2012

Snow Crash Humors the End of the World Theory

By Emily Hunt

If Dec. 21, 2012 does indeed signify the end of the world, I’m guessing it won’t be via any natural disaster. No, if our species (or rather, all species) are to conclude their existences within the next 12 months, it...

January 12, 2012

In Case of Zombie Attacks, ‘Shut Up or Nut Up’

By Nicole Valencia

Rather than lament on apocalypses or rhapsodize about a bright and shiny bang that leaves all sinners in its wake, this article is a practical guide to a practical movie, which in turn is a practical guide for readers li...

January 12, 2012

‘The Innkeepers’ Raises Horror Film Expectations

By Derek Boeckelmann

For horror fans like me, 2011 saw the decline of remakes, torture porn and slasher films. While the financial pull of these subgenres nosedived, there was an unexpected revival of the paranormal subgenre, with films like...