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On December 28, 1998, a 19-year-old African American woman,Tyisha Miller, was killed by four police officers in Riverside, California. After the 12 bullets were fired, Tyisha was in a comatose state, ...
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On April 9, UCSB’s Arts & Lectures film series kicked off the spring season with the 7th Annual Santa Barbara Human Rights Film Festival at the Pollock Theater. The festival features a variety o...
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Shot in 2009 and then stuck in distribution purgatory for several years, the highly-anticipated horror film “The Cabin in the Woods” was finally released last week. The directorial debut of “Clo...
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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
