Artsweek

April 10, 2008

Visionary Verse

By Tyler Vickers

Following up on an excellent performance by the Living Legends last quarter, After Hours @ the Hub started spring off by hosting hip hop crew Hieroglyphics last Thursday night. The Oakland natives proved their status as ...

April 10, 2008

Some Enchanted Evening

By Karen Locke

When one thinks of classical dance, visions of nutcrackers and prima ballerinas in pretty, puffy pink tutus dance across the mind. Or, perhaps the image of Mikhail Baryshnikov twirling his manly yet delicate body around ...

April 10, 2008

Take a Hike

By Michael Hapberg

"Leatherheads," George Clooney's third directorial effort, is a love letter to the good old days - the ones when the dames had moxie, the movies had a madcap energy and professional football was unfettered by pesky "rule...

April 3, 2008

The Raconteurs Release a Revelatory Record

By Zach Manzanetti

Good God, it’s nice to hear Jack White with a competent drummer behind him. The Raconteurs’ second album, Consolers of the Lonely, is not dominated by The White Stripes’ front man, although it does have...

April 3, 2008

Ain’t Nothin’ But a Spring Thing

By Mollie Vandor

Springtime in Santa Barbara. The weather is beautiful, most of the time. The sun is shining, some of the time. And, classes come second to your social life all of the time. There's just something about that fresh spring ...

April 3, 2008

Losing It

By Stephanie Leong

The fate of films dealing with the war in Iraq has tended to be fairly similar during the past few years - most of them end up falling victim to audience indifference and apathy, unfavorable reviews, widespread criticism...

April 3, 2008

The Writing’s on the Wall

By Tyler Vickers

Sometimes, three eyes are better than two. Hieroglyphics, the Oakland-based hip-hop group, prove this point very well: Their band's famous logo is a three-eyed and tight-lipped variation on the smiley face, a symbol of t...

April 3, 2008

Mack the Knife

By Virginia Yapp

Brooklynite Bryan Scary and his supporting band, the Shredding Tears, achieve liftoff with their second album, Flight of the Knife, an exceedingly bizarre concept album about the heroic endeavors of Airship Valentine and...

March 6, 2008

Like Eating Glass

By Cassie McGrath

As Philip Glass took the stage Sunday night, Campbell Hall was packed and the body heat of the hushed audience was rising. Glass, a soft-spoken man with an absent-minded professor appeal, emerged to announce that there w...

March 6, 2008

Girl On Girl

By Amy Silverstein

Despite what its sexy previews suggest, Justin Chadwick's "The Other Boleyn Girl" leaves audiences with the cinematic version of blue balls.

March 6, 2008

Delightfully Dramatic

By Stephanie Leong

UCSB's Dept. of Theater and Dance premiered Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Idiot's Delight," in Hatlen Theater on Feb. 29. The play takes place in the 1930s and is essentially centered around the omin...

March 6, 2008

Vital Video

By Mollie Vandor

British artist Isaac Julien is world renowned for his innovative film installations, but most UCSB students probably know him from lectures in law & society, sociology, political science and any other number of social sc...

March 6, 2008

Oh So Emo

By Virginia Yapp

Buried beneath the inessential trash - the 10-minute digression of sonic experimentation of the album's titular track comes to mind - is the most essential, "emotional" album that Stephen Malkmus has released in years. M...

February 28, 2008

The Write Stuff

By Dianne Jobson

Cartoons aren't just for kids, as anyone who's watched the late-night programs on "Adult Swim" may have noticed. One of the star programs is "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," an animated series about a crime-fighting fry carton,...

February 28, 2008

Probing A Probable Pop Prince

By Sara Weitz

When a singer's claims to fame consists of being picked to perform on "American Idol" and having a close, personal friendship with Fred Durst, the term "down-to-earth" doesn't exactly come to mind.

February 28, 2008

VHS Virtuosos

By Mollie Vandor

French filmmaker Michel Gondry is best known for his imagination and his uncanny ability to bring the wild world inside his head to full-fledged, full-color fruition on film.