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October 20, 2011

‘The Walking Dead’: Frighteningly Good

By Derek Boeckelmann

Over the weekend, AMC’s wildly successful series “The Walking Dead” began its sophomore run, and, thankfully, showed no signs of the behind-the-scenes drama that has plagued the series over its summer hiatus. Perso...

October 20, 2011

LGBT Film Festival Celebrates 20th Year

By Daily Nexus Staff

OUTrageous: The Santa Barbara Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Film Festival is celebrating 20 years of queer cinematography with a four-day event featuring world premiers, shorts and appearances from filmma...

October 20, 2011

Pulitzer Prize Winner Awes Campbell Hall

By Demi Anter

The Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, Mary Oliver read poems spanning her roughly forty-year career to a packed Campbell Hall on Saturday night. The event drew a noticeably older crowd which was dotted with students,...

October 20, 2011

Muddy Waters Shakes Up Noche de los Muertos

By Emily Hunt

As eager students (attending UCSB or not) gear up for Santa Barbara Halloween by purchasing fake facial hair and dreaming of various ways to sex up even the most ordinary of Halloween costumes, the Muddy Waters’ downto...

October 13, 2011

Tiesto Hits SB Bowl with Legendary Show

By Brandon Foo

When the legacy of an artist spans the breadth of more than a generation, commands the reverence of fans the world over and has left a substantial impact on an industry, that artist’s performance is preceded by an almo...

October 13, 2011

Porter Robinson Makes a Stop in Isla Vista

By Garik Hauer

Standing among hundreds in the backyard of 6741 Del Playa Drive last Thursday at 11:30 p.m., I could see my thoughts on the faces of everyone around me. “He isn’t coming.” Earlier that night, word spread via text m...

October 13, 2011

Culinary Art Hits the California Avocado Festival

By Emily Hunt

I studied my opponents carefully and approached the table: They knew me and they knew what I had come for. They had the product and they had the power to manipulate me according to whatever sick whims passed through thei...

October 13, 2011

Blitzen Trapper and Dawes Rock SOhO

By Madison Medeiros

Nothing is better than kick-ass live music and good-hearted people. Blitzen Trapper and Dawes infused SOhO with passion, energy and heart last Saturday, giving the sold-out crowd a night not to be forgotten. Smoke Fairie...

October 13, 2011

Raised by Pop Culture: Why Everyone Should Know About ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’

By Damion Damaske

Ever watch a terrible movie with friends? Isn’t that experience sometimes better than watching a good film with them — everyone just sitting around, lobbing jokes at the shoddy production values, terrible acting and ...

October 13, 2011

Clooney and Gosling Bring ‘Ides’ to Big Screen

By Damion Damaske

George Clooney is a white Obama. That’s essentially the plot of “Ides of March,” the new film adapted from Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North. While the stage play, written in 2008, was loosely based on Howard D...

October 6, 2011

‘Scary Wives of Windsor’ at the Park

By Mathew Javidi

It is often said that Queen Elizabeth I commissioned The Merry Wives of Windsor, a spin-off of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, out of her fondness for the iconic character, “Sir John Falstaff.” That may be true, but in the...

October 6, 2011

Malkovich Brings ‘Infernal Comedy’ to the Granada

By Madison Medeiros

Thirty minutes after curtain call, Musica Angelica finally started Michael Sturminger’s show, “Infernal Comedy — Confessions of a Serial Killer”, with their beautiful performance of C.W. Gluck’s “Don Juan.”...

October 6, 2011

Lisa Hannigan Sweetly Serenades SOhO

By Madison Medeiros

Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan played to a full house at SOhO on Saturday night. Dressed in an emerald dress and stylish boots, she looked as beautiful as the music she performed. Many of the songs Hannigan played...

October 6, 2011

KCSB Celebrates 50 Years of Free Radio

By Carly Bonilla-Flores

In 2010, the Santa Barbara Independent regarded KCSB as “one of the few remaining free form radio stations in the United States.” It was this kind of praise and recognition that KCSB received and commemorated at its ...

October 6, 2011

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

By Demi Anter

Hippies. Homeless. Hipsters. Heaven. These may seem like some incongruous terms, but they actually add up to produce one incredible thing: the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Hardly Strictly is a free festival put on...

October 6, 2011

Why Music Fans are Inherently Terrible

By Damion Damaske

When you’re talking to someone about what kind of music you like, it can be as treacherous as bringing up politics or religion. Most people hold the music they enjoy as sacred, and many do so to the point of fanaticism...