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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...

April 30, 2009

Death Cab Brings Down the Thunderdome

By Orlando Giumarra Nexus Photographer

April 30, 2009

Controversial “Bashir” To Screen at Campbell

By Hunter M. Daniels

There are few topics more divisive and polarizing on our campus than that of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Even half a world away, this subject is something that almost no one is willing -- or perhaps able -...

April 30, 2009

Classical Dance With a Modern Flair

By Karen Urrutia

Featuring experimentation with movements as diverse as the troupe of dancers who performed them, last Friday's performance by Spain's National Junior Ballet Company was exquisite. The company performed three pieces, all ...

April 30, 2009

Jazz Legend Plays in SB

By Alexander Congrove Reporter

This past Monday evening, 78-year-old jazz virtuoso stepped out on the stage at Campbell Hall and, without a word, lifted his tenor saxaphone to his lips and began to play. Beginning with a repetitive bebop line as his b...

April 23, 2009

Dazed and Confused in the Desert

By Amy Silverstein, Virginia Yapp, Michael Hafford

By the time Crystal Castles' set in the Sahara tent ended early Friday evening, my muscles were sore, my skin was covered in other people's sweat and one of the lenses from my prescription glasses had gone missing.&...

April 23, 2009

Menomena @ Velvet Jones

By Matthew Schmitt

For some reason, I had gotten it into my head that the band opening last Saturday evening at Velvet Jones was going to be The Sea and Cake, so you can imagine I was initially a bit confused when an unfamiliar figure, sin...

April 23, 2009

Brit Beneath the Big Top

By Sara Weitz

Despite the ample supply of confetti, little people, daring acrobatic feats, rings of fire and an extravaganza of lights found last Thursday at L.A.'s STAPLES Center, this was not your average circus. Ringmaster Britney ...

April 23, 2009

Low-fi Love at the Biko Co-op

By Steven Morris

I avoided Kimya Dawson like a plague the last time she came through Isla Vista and played at the Pink Mailbox back in 2007. "Juno," the Oscar-nominated "indie" darling of that year, had recently come out and the soundtra...

April 23, 2009

Quick Takes:

By Hunter M. Daniels

Watching "Crank: High Voltage" is like seeing a porn star strapped with dynamite launched out of a cannon into a brick wall: loud, dumb, gratuitous and delightfully offensive.

April 23, 2009

Psychedelic Mushrooms

By Artsweek Editor

Before seeing the band's set, I was rather surprised to see a long line of students waiting to see an Israeli trance duo named after an afflicted fungus wrapped around the UCen. Last Wednesday evening in the Hub, Infecte...

April 23, 2009

Spending 4/20 With Fleet Foxes

By Artsweek Editor

Two days after playing to a sweaty Coachella crowd, the musicians of Fleet Foxes must have felt a bit of déjà vu when they looked out into the crowd and saw it full of the same smiling and stoned faces looking ...

April 16, 2009

Mirah Shows Another Side at SOhO

By Steven Morris

A roommate, a classmate and my favorite cat lady all bailed on our plan of going to see Mirah last Wednesday evening at SOhO, but I didn't let it get me down. I headed downtown all by my lonesome to hear three very lovel...