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Back on the Silk Road Again

Are musicians allowed to have this much fun?
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Artsweek Speaks With Professor Powell

To better elucidate the historical context of the Silk Road Ensemble's upcoming performance, Artsweek asked a few questions of Professor Bill Powell from UCSB's Religious Studies and East Asian Langua...
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Spring Forward

Like most good things, Spring Break is rare - it only comes once a year, and it only lasts for about a week.
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Battle Royale

Five local bands went head to head in Saturday night's "Battle of the Bands" hosted by A.S. Program Board at the UCSB Hub this past Saturday.
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Nuns Having Fun

Arms poised in a port de bras, Sister Mary Leo, the novice nun, glides across the stage with the use of pink Heelys, the footwear of a common ten-year-old hipster that allows one to roll across a room...
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Bring in da Funk

On Saturday, March 10, USCB is fortunate to have the dynamic hip hop artist Lyrics Born performing at the Hub.
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Calendar for 3/8/07

Unwind tonight with a little night music, as the University Wind Ensemble presents a concert featuring works by Robert Washburn, Gordon Jacob, Vincent Persichetti, Eric Ewazen, Samuel Hazo and Eric Wh...
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Arcade Fire / Neon Bible / Merge Records

Sharing a name with Tom Kennedy Toole's novel, Neon Bible falls short of its predecessor Funeral, featuring more abrasive lyrics and a rather disappointing experimentation with new sounds.
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Pushing the Envelope

"Are you over 21?" I had no idea why the portly guy who works the front desk at the desolate-looking building I'd been sent to with six tapes to send up on a satellite feed from Century City to Chicag...
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Rhythm & Rhymes

Black History Month went out with a slang Tuesday, Feb. 27 with Universes' Universe's "Slanguage," presented by Arts & Lectures.
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Spy Games

At one point in "Breach," Chris Cooper's character, Robert Hanssen, complains that his fellow FBI agents are more interested in violence and glory than in contemplation and moral conviction.
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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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