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Light It Up

April 10, 2008 by

It would be easy to dismiss the Rolling Stones' recent one-two punch of releases as mere attempts of an aging rock band to capitalize on its success by creating a new product out of its existing catal...
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Visionary Verse

April 10, 2008 by

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 pro...
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Some Enchanted Evening

April 10, 2008 by

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 d...
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Take a Hike

April 10, 2008 by

"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 unfet...
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The Raconteurs Release a Revelatory Record

April 3, 2008 by

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, a...
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Ain’t Nothin’ But a Spring Thing

April 3, 2008 by

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 abou...
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Losing It

April 3, 2008 by

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, ...
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The Writing’s on the Wall

April 3, 2008 by

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...
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Mack the Knife

April 3, 2008 by

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 A...
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Like Eating Glass

March 6, 2008 by

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 a...
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Girl On Girl

March 6, 2008 by

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

March 6, 2008 by

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 cent...
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Vital Video

March 6, 2008 by

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...
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Oh So Emo

March 6, 2008 by

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 ...
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The Write Stuff

February 28, 2008 by

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-...
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