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Taylor Swift Drops Her Latest Album

October 28, 2010 by

Country songstress Taylor Swift reports on the past two years of her life on her third studio album, Speak Now.
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John Lithgow Tells His Favorite Stories

October 28, 2010 by

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.
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Rocky Horror: Just As Horrible as Ever

October 28, 2010 by

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.
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New Release: Paranormal Activity 2

October 28, 2010 by and

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 ...
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Party Creepy: 5 Scary Dubstep Tracks

October 28, 2010 by

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.
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Jacakss 3D: The Avatar of the Third Dimension

October 21, 2010 by

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...
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Sufjan Stevens Branches Out With Age of Adz

October 21, 2010 by

One of music’s most inventive yet elusive artists breaks his five years of silence with a very unexpected sound.
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Shakira’s Hips Continue To Tell Truth on Latest Album

October 21, 2010 by

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).
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Sleigh Bells Jingle All the Way to SOhO

October 21, 2010 by

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.
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“No Ordinary Family”

October 14, 2010 by

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.
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“The Event”

October 14, 2010 by

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

October 14, 2010 by

Born the daughter of music legend Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, Zoë Kravitz has made a name for herself as a gifted actress.
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Steve Martin Makes Beautiful Music With the Banjo

October 14, 2010 by

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

October 14, 2010 by

“Eastbound & Down” and “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” are both a part of television: this past week.
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New Release: “Paranormal Activity 2

October 11, 2010 by

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 ...
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