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October 28, 2010

Taylor Swift Drops Her Latest Album

By Lucas Villa

Country songstress Taylor Swift reports on the past two years of her life on her third studio album, Speak Now.

October 28, 2010

John Lithgow Tells His Favorite Stories

By Demi Anter

Actor John Lithgow brought his critically acclaimed show, “Stories by Heart,” to the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara last Monday night as part of this year’s Arts & Lectures series.

October 28, 2010

Rocky Horror: Just As Horrible as Ever

By Matthew Javidi

When a film has been in theaters for over three decades, you would expect that film to be either culturally significant, so bad that it’s just that fun to watch or the best damn movie of all time.

October 28, 2010

New Release: Paranormal Activity 2

By Artsweek Editor, Derek Boeckelmann

Like “The Blair Witch Project” ten years before it, Paranormal Activity, a low-budget, independent horror film marketed under the guise of a documentary project, achieved the near-impossible last year by becoming an ...

October 28, 2010

Party Creepy: 5 Scary Dubstep Tracks

By Rowan Byers

It’s old news to say that dubstep is big in I.V. Unfortunately I don’t hear a whole lot of variety in what I hear out there in the streets.

October 21, 2010

Jacakss 3D: The Avatar of the Third Dimension

By Rowan Byers

I don’t think anybody needs me to explain to them what “Jackass” is about. If you don’t know what it is, or do know and are offended that people actually pay money to watch that crap, put down your Nexus and pay ...

October 21, 2010

Sufjan Stevens Branches Out With Age of Adz

By Philippe Lazaro

One of music’s most inventive yet elusive artists breaks his five years of silence with a very unexpected sound.

October 21, 2010

Shakira’s Hips Continue To Tell Truth on Latest Album

By Lucas Villa

Colombian singer Shakira ditches the electro-pop edge of last year’s She Wolf and returns to her Latin roots on Sale el Sol (The Sun Comes Out).

October 21, 2010

Sleigh Bells Jingle All the Way to SOhO

By Artsweek Editor

Sleigh Bells slid down SOhO’s chimney last Monday, Oct. 18 and delivered a 30 minute, 29 second sonic dance assault to the packed house.

October 14, 2010

“No Ordinary Family”

By Damion Damaske

The superhero is so ingrained in our public consciousness that any variation on it has about as much potential for originality as a sorority tank top.

October 14, 2010

“The Event”

By Damion Damaske

NBC has touted “The Event” for a long time. Like “Lost,” it relied on mystery and obtuseness for attention, with ads that touted the tagline "What is ‘The Event’?," to entice would-be viewers.

October 14, 2010

Zoë Kravitz Talks “X-Men,” “Mad Max” and “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”

By Derek Boeckelmann

Born the daughter of music legend Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, Zoë Kravitz has made a name for herself as a gifted actress.

October 14, 2010

Steve Martin Makes Beautiful Music With the Banjo

By Rowan Byers

This wasn’t an evening of comedy with Steve Martin, this was an evening of bluegrass and banjo; Steve Martin performing with the Steep Canyon Rangers.

October 14, 2010

“Eastbound & Down” and “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret”

By Alex Svedlow

“Eastbound & Down” and “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” are both a part of television: this past week.

October 11, 2010

New Release: “Paranormal Activity 2

By Derek Boeckelmann

Like “The Blair Witch Project” 10 years before it, “Paranormal Activity,” a low-budget, independent horror film marketed under the guise of a documentary project, achieved the near-impossible last year by becomin...

October 7, 2010