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Love By The Numbers

Say the words "science fiction," and the imagination conjures visions of breathtaking advances in physics and biotechnology that transform our world into a dystopia, a utopia or a little of both.
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Scrap It

Not many sculptures are adorned with strands of human hair and old stickers. Then again, most sculptures are not made out of lint.
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“Into Great Silence” Speaks Volumes

With the Oscars culminating last Sunday and Hollywood's summer blockbusters yet to come, Philip Gršning's documentary about reclusive French monks, "Into Great Silence," offers a more poetic and ...
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Bloc Party | A Weekend in the City | Wichita

Bloc Party's new album, A Weekend in the City, is an overproduced attempt at becoming something more than Silent Alarm.
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Getting Dirty

"Mud" may be the single most depressing hour ever to take place at the HSSB Performing Arts Theater.
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X-Men

Harked from the 1990's "Golden Era" of hip hop, the legendary X-Clan performed last Friday night at Velvet Jones.
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Silk Road Cinema

As movie theaters currently buckle under the weight of the celluloid backwash that studios unleash at the beginning of each new year
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Acting Out

Students are rocking out for a good cause this Friday at the Sub City "Take Action Tour," presented by After Hours at the Hub.
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It’s Their Line, Anyway

On any weekday, at any given time, Embarcadero Hall reverberates with the languid, meandering lectures of its residing professor and the sighs and snores of his or her duly enthralled students.
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La Salsa

When the Spanish Harlem Orchestra played on Tuesday, Feb. 13, the lively salsa music resonated throughout the packed rows of Campbell Hall with an upbeat energy that lasted from the very beginning unt...
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Introduction to Indie Music

Lets face it: It is nearly impossible to find small-label music in any big-name record stores.
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A Sweet Serenade

Mirah - a talented acoustic folk artist on the rise - played at UCSB's very own Hub on Feb. 11, serenading the crowd of roughly 400 people with her uniquely soulful lyrics.
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The D and Me

Jack Black is a man needing no introduction. A consummate entertainer and showman, Jack Black - through his many film roles and involvements - has always kept his heart with Tenacious D, the little mo...
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The Write Stuff: Feeling Groovy

It's kitchy and campy, funky and fabulous - and it's got a bartender on roller skates. It's none-other than Elsie's Tavern, a lounge tucked away on a low-key block of De la Guerra St., behind Paseo Nu...
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Adequate Grace

In the current American political climate, as much as any other time period or place, it is pretty easy to be cynical. Michael Apted's latest film "Amazing Grace" -
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