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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 warm...
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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 Mon...
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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 music...
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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 menti...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 an...
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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...
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"(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.
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"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, ...
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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 ...
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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 & ...
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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 colu...
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Ola Podrida, a.k.a. musician David Wingo, makes music that fits perfectly into the mold cast for the indie-folk sound: While his latest album, Belly of the Lion, may not be incredibly original or grou...
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
