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Take a Course in Laughology

February 2, 2012 by

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 abo...
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Kum-Kum Bhavnani’s Nothing Like Water

February 1, 2012 by

          ‘Nothing Like Chocolate’ Teaser from Kum-Kum Bhavnani on Vimeo.
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Young Virtuosos: Joy Kills Sorrow Plays Lobero

January 26, 2012 by

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...
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UCSB Poets Gather for First Annual A.S. Slam

January 26, 2012 by

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. Th...
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Word Farm Returns to SB

January 26, 2012 by

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 ...
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Say Hello to Sundance 2012

January 26, 2012 by

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...
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A&L, National Theatre Live are ‘Collaborators’

January 19, 2012 by

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 pe...
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Raised by Pop-Culture: Why Remakes are Good

January 19, 2012 by

I don’t understand why everyone has such a hard-off for remakes. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard: “Hollywood is running out of ideas,” “Why can’t Hollywood be original anymore...
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Me, My Mom and ‘Mission Impossible 4’

January 19, 2012 by

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 wa...
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Searching for Character in Abrams’ ‘Alcatraz’

January 19, 2012 by

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-driv...
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‘The Artist’ is Golden Globe’s Silent Killer

January 19, 2012 by

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-fashione...
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A Letter From the Editor

January 12, 2012 by

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 ...
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‘Melancholia’: Delightfully Depressing and Unsettling

January 12, 2012 by

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...
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Coachella Announces 2012 Line Up

January 12, 2012 by

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!”...
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Raised by Popular Culture: The Worst Movie of 2011

January 12, 2012 by

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. Wha...
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