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May 21, 2009

INTERVIEW: Rebelution

By Rene Caballero

Minutes before Extravaganza '09 opened its doors to a line of hundreds of people, I found myself in front of the Rebelution tent backstage. The reggae band whose members met in SBCC and then began to build the group's fa...

May 21, 2009

Venus Infers Rocks Relay for Life

By Jenni Perez

Holding a crowd's attention at Relay For Life is no easy task. With the fellas distracted by the perpetual wet t-shirt fest, compliments of water balloon tosses and water "Duck, Duck, Goose" games, and the ladies going ...

May 21, 2009

INTERVIEW: DJ Raph

By Rene Caballero

DJ Raph mixed in-between acts at last Saturday's Extravaganza, making everyone - from the dance-music neophyte to the electro Gene Kelly - get up and bump to the beat of the bass. In between one of his many sets that nig...

May 14, 2009

Audiotistic 2009

By Matthew Schmitt

San Bernardino brings two things to mind: bros and Big Bear. But there's another thing the city has to offer - a gigantic fairground that has been the host of many festivals.

May 14, 2009

’90s Pop Phenoms The Vaselines Revisited ****

By Steven Morris

You've probably never heard of the Glasgow indie-pop band The Vaselines. And, if you have heard of them, it's probably only because Kurt Cobain was madly in love with them. Luckily, Sub Pop Records has reissued The Vasel...

May 14, 2009

High School Musical ****

By Staff

From producer Ryan Murphy, of the demented and immensely pleasurable show, “Nip/Tuck,” comes a tamer but similarly satirical show, “Glee.” This new show – which comes across as a “High...

May 14, 2009

Deejay Raph: Extravaganza’s Je Ne Sais Quoi

By Rene Caballero

I met the Frenchman turned I.V. resident DJ at his residence on Sueño Road. When I got there, the sound of his latest audible concoction blasted through the garage door, the man who had won the DJ spot in this year'...

May 14, 2009

“Star Trek” Rebooted *****

By Artsweek Editor

Although big screen re-imaginings of comic books or TV series have long been de rigueur, none have taken on a series with such a rich back story and committed fan base as "Star Trek." With the collected weight of the ori...

May 14, 2009

“Fanboys” To Screen in I.V. Theater Sunday

By Rene Caballero

Fanboys is the story of five Star Wars fanatics who receive the news that one of them has been diagnosed with cancer and will more than likely not make it for the release of Star Wars Episode I. The five fans decide to b...

May 14, 2009

No Moldy Peaches Here ***

By Hunter M. Daniels

In essence, Peaches is a woman, playing as a man who is dressed as a woman. "You're staring at my ass / and my beard / and my moustache," she taunts on "Serpentine," a track from her latest album, I Feel Cream, a sleaze ...

May 7, 2009

Interview: Gregg Gillis, a.k.a Girl Talk

By Matthew Schmitt

Gregg Gillis is best known as his DJ pseudonym, Girl Talk. The popular mash-up act is currently on the road on a college tour, which will bring the artist to UCSB for May 15th's Extravaganza. Gillis took time out of his ...

May 7, 2009

Sabatage: Downtown SB’s Favorite Rapper

By Rene Caballero

Usually on Sunday mornings, I wake up at noon with a hangover and tend to a killer headache. But this Sunday was different: I happily got up at 8 a.m., got dressed and headed to a Starbucks on State Street. I was meeting...

May 7, 2009

Comedy Prospers at the I.V. Digital Film Fest

By Steven Morris

Just barely in its infancy, the second-annual Isla Vista Digital Film Festival premiered Saturday night in I.V. Theater to a decently packed and ultimately unenthusiastic crowd, despite the variety of programming and pas...

May 7, 2009

“Wolverine” Has Claws

By Justin Kruszona

An average start to the summer film season begins with the long-awaited "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." After three films of mutant ecstasy, viewers finally learn the troubled back story of their favorite adamantium-clawed b...

May 7, 2009

“Terra” is a Rarity Among Kids’ Films

By Hunter M. Daniels

"Battle for Terra 3D" is an imaginative children's film about a race of aliens who make first contact with a new species -- humans. Humans have abandoned Earth after destroying the ecosystem during interplanetary warfar...

May 7, 2009

The Lurking “Ghosts” of Rom-Coms Past

By Sara Weitz

Matthew McConaughey's latest lazy vehicle, "Ghosts of Girlfriend Past," mixes a little bit of A Christmas Carol with every rom-com trope out there. Here, McConaughey plays a womanizing bachelor who learns some valuable l...