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November 19, 2009

Annual One-Act Plays Provide Quality Entertainment

By Nico Kiefer

November 19, 2009

“2012” Is the End of the World as We Know It ****

By Lance Kosher

Writer/Director Roland Emmerich is sick, sick man. How he comes up with new ways to kill off the human race is beyond me. Whether it's through an alien invasion, a giant mutated iguana, or global warming, it is safe to s...

November 19, 2009

Lady Gaga Gives Birth to Fame Monster ****

By Lucas Villa

Receiving both critical acclaim and commercial success with her debut album The Fame, pop phenomenon Lady Gaga looks to prove that she’s no one-trick pony with her sophomore effort, The Fame Monster. Originally mad...

November 19, 2009

Norah’s Fall Is No Misstep ***

By Nicole Sands

Singer/songwriter Norah Jones, a modern Billie Holiday who started rocking the modern jazz world in 2002, is back with her fourth album which debuted on Tuesday, November 17th. Ever the eclectic musician with an uncanny ...

November 19, 2009

“Pirates” Is Captivating ****

By Emelie Battaglia

November 12, 2009

Betties Battle It Out

By Artsweek Editor

I found out about last Saturday's season-closing bout between the Mission City Brawlin' Betties and the West Coast Derby Knockouts entirely by chance. At dinner with a VP at Citrix, she casually mentioned that a few of h...

November 12, 2009

Pixies at the Palladium

By Artsweek Editor

Pixies, widely held to be grunge's progenitors as well as early '90s alt-rock darlings, kicked off its Doolittle tour in rollicking style last Wednesday at the Hollywood Palladium. The band's members have lost nearly all...

November 12, 2009

Ordinary “Men” ** (and 1/2)

By Emelie Battaglia

Maybe it's the way the author of the novel, Jon Ronson, wanted it. Maybe it's the all-star cast with the less-than-stellar script from screenwriter Peter Straughan. Either way, Grant Heslov's "The Men Who Stare at Goats"...

November 12, 2009

Mickey Avalon Really Is Mr. Right

By Hunter M. Daniels

When Mickey Avalon took the stage Sunday at Velvet Jones co-eds started making out, tattooed women began to dance on their beau's shoulders and spastic groupies began to writhe and grind up against anyone in sight. Meanw...

November 12, 2009

This Echo Is Faint **

By Lucas Villa

After making a splash stateside last year with "Bleeding Love," UK superstar Leona Lewis hopes her sophomore album, Echo, will duplicate the success of its predecessor. The new 13-track LP finds Lewis treading similar gr...

November 12, 2009

(“Untitled”) Review ***

By Tyler Anthony

"(Untitled)," the latest effort by "Bartleby" director Jonathon Parker, stars Adam Goldberg as an avant-garde composer whose atonal, anti-melodic music satirizes the bohemian Chelsea art scene.

November 5, 2009

INTERVIEW: Exene Cervenka

By Virginia Yapp

"No one is ever going to pay you, and if you do get paid for stuff, that's good," Exene Cervenka told me the other day over the phone. "I don't even care, as long as they listen to my music. In fact, it's kind of like th...

November 5, 2009

“This Is It” Is a Fitting Farewell

By Justin Kruszona

Simply put, Michael Jackson's "This Is It" is extraordinary. If there existed any skepticism before about whether or not Michael Jackson would have been unable to complete his massive tour, this film will put it to rest.

November 5, 2009

A Look at What’s To Come in Local Theater and Dance

By Nico Kiefer

November is a busy month for many students as midterms give way to term papers, and vacations wait on the horizon. However, the coming cold means much more than that for UCSB's own Dept. of Theater & Dance, which is curr...

November 5, 2009

News You Can Use ****

By Tyler Anthony

In a technological world with so many outlets for transmitting information and where reporting has been reduced to a synthesis of secondary sources, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Krist...