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The Flaming Lips' latest record is Embryonic, a volatile collage of often paradoxical elements. This album of 18 tracks -- split between two discs -- is a study of oppositions: It comes across at once...
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With a couple days of school under our collective belt thus far, there are already those trying to figure out how to divert themselves from schoolwork and find effective ways to procrastinate. I say t...
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Replete with raging hormones and teenage angst, the 2009 update of 1980's Oscar-winning film "Fame" portrays the high school experience we all know too well. Emotions are constantly in high gear, as t...
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If you have trouble finding the new The Mountain Goats' album when it is released Tuesday, you might want to try and see if it was mistakenly stocked in the Christian music department. No, the trio ha...
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AIR: The French electronica band's name alone conjures up elemental and celestial thoughts, and the band itself lives up to its namesake by feeding off the spacey, electronic sounds made popular in th...
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Remember that one movie where everyone is plugged into machines that created a large-scale simulacra of the world until a single man rises up and frees all human consciousness? Or how about the one wh...
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The story of "Pandorum" is this: By the year 2174, the planet Earth has become significantly overpopulated; the only possible solution to the overcrowding is to send a large spaceship of humans to a p...
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Director Jane Campion's "Bright Star," the latest of this year's Cannes selections to be given a theatrical release, is a period film based on the final years of Romantic -literarily and literally - p...
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No Age returns to smaller releases after flirtation and romance, brought singer-its last two projects have produced LPs. The Losing Feeling EP - due out Oct. 6 - is a bit of a departure for the band, ...
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If there's one thing most students don't take enough advantage of during their four-year stay at this fine institution of higher learning, it's UCSB's very own Arts & Lectures... not that you'd know i...
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Featuring a beautiful beachside locale, tons of reggae, a number of jam bands and copious amounts of ganja, the West Beach Music & Arts Festival pretty much embodies the Santa Barbara image, love it o...
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Walking in to see "Jennifer's Body," I was prepared to experience something similar to that which was depicted in the first shot of the film: picking at a scab. After all, Megan Fox really hasn't show...
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In the fall of 2002, MTV premiered "Clone High," a deliriously funny spoof of teen dramas and world history. Less than 4 months later the show was canceled due to the fatal combination of mediocre rat...
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This year, Artsweek will be trying out some new columns and features as a way to better serve you, the student. This column is the first in a series designed to alert students to films that they might...
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Reviewing a video game is a strange experience, and one that has little to do with actually playing the game. True, you play more of the game than probably 80 percent of the people that play the game ...
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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
