Artsweek

October 4, 2007

Band of Horses Rides Again

By Virginia Yapp

Sophomore albums tend to be heavily scrutinized and picked apart by critics and fans alike, often unfairly. Expectations are amplified when your band's debut album is a critically acclaimed, Pitchfork-approved, list-topp...

October 4, 2007

Jazz Giants

By Zach Phillips

Local jazz fans have long been flocking to the Biko House, located at 6612 Sueno Rd., for its monthly Experimental Music Night. With a devoted cult following, this experimental experience has been a well-kept secret amon...

October 4, 2007

It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing

By Tyler Vickers

World-renowned saxophonist Bill Evans once said, "Jazz is a mental attitude rather than a style. It uses a certain process of the mind expressed spontaneously through some musical instrument. I'm concerned with retaining...

September 27, 2007

You Say You Want a Revolution?

By Amy Silverstein

"Across the Universe" is both a film and a time capsule, allowing our own jaded generation to experience what it felt like to live through the idealistic 1960s. The film - a musical in which people belt out songs by the ...

September 27, 2007

A Breautiful Beginning

By Dianne Jobson

Local dance aficionados won't have to look hard to find some new talent this fall as Ballet Santa Barbara's fourth season, "Les Petits Ballets Santa Barbara," begins this weekend. The company, which was founded in 2005, ...

September 27, 2007

‘Tis the Season

By Mollie Vandor

With the long, languid days of summer rapidly becoming but a distant memory and the onslaught of a new year of classes coming at you faster than you care to accept, it's hard to see the positive side of the autumnal seas...

September 27, 2007

The Boring One

By Zach Phillips

If ever there were a film that could bring homicidal feminists and Rudy Giuliani together to share a bag of popcorn, it would be "The Brave One."

September 27, 2007

The Bleeding Heart Show

By Cameron David Smith

Last Thursday night, I had the pleasure of witnessing one of the best bands play at the Henry Fonda Music Box Theatre. The New Pornographers are one of those bands that no matter which song they play, the audience knows ...

September 20, 2007

Fancy Footwork

By Andrea Nipales

"Andy Warhol Presents" is a small but weighty collection of Andy Warhol's early work - as well as a surprising smattering of Edie Sedgwick drawings - running in the University Art Museum until Oct. 7.

September 20, 2007

More Cheese Please

By Tyler Vickers

Some people want fame. Others want fortune.

September 20, 2007

Music With A Twist

By Amy Silverstein

If you prefer your music with a coffee and a cigarette rather than a forty and a blunt, the lounge act Pink Martini is perfect for you.

September 20, 2007

Rilo Kiley

By Mollie Vandor

There is one universal truth that all indie music fans eventually have to come to grips with - inevitably almost all of the best indie bands will take a foray into the mainstream.

September 20, 2007

The Mouse That Does Not Squeak

By Cameron David Smith

Playing the Santa Barbara Bowl last Friday was Modest Mouse - a band that needs no introduction to the Santa Barbara crowd.

September 20, 2007

Go West, Young Man

By Zach Phillips

All contemporary American westerns share the same three facets: geography, horses and guns.

August 29, 2007

Soothe the Savage Beast at the Beastie Boys Concert

By Tyler Vickers

If you happened to be at the Santa Barbara Bowl last Thursday, and you also happened to be curious as to when the show would begin, you might have leaned toward someone wearing a watch in the accompanying row and innocen...

August 29, 2007

Artsweek Has Invited You To. . .

By Tyler Vickers

Not many things can boost one's ego like a long list of invites under one's Events page - except, perhaps, a well-placed Super Poke from that special someone.