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November 2, 2006

Untamed Lyon

By Stephanie Cain

From the name, you would think that the Lyon Opera Ballet is a traditional French dance company. But last Tuesday night, the troupe demonstrated why they are billed as contemporary dance. Departing from everything classi...

November 2, 2006

Blinded By the Light

By Colin Marshall

Judging by his work, Haruki Murakami bears ambivalence toward a great many things - his homeland, the literary establishment, his generation, the stability of identity and the conventions of narrative structure - to name...

November 2, 2006

Don’t Drink the Water

By David Ferry

As part of a whirlwind tour of Southern California and Las Vegas, Dave Matthews - minus his titular band and plus guitarist extraordinaire Tim Reynolds - stopped by the Santa Barbara Bowl this weekend and managed to blow...

November 2, 2006

Artsweek Calendar November 2-November 8

By Staff

Calendar for 11/2/06 Thursday November 2: Grab your bongos and beret and check out Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his body of work at Campbell Hall tonight. Ferlinghetti is one of the last living Beat Poets and the f...

October 26, 2006

The Horror, the Horror

By Mollie Vandor Staff Writer Will Wolfslau Staff Writer

When it comes to genre films, nothing beats a good horror movie. Full of sex, blood, and plenty of other characteristics that make these flicks fantastic in the way that only something so widely reviled by protective par...

October 26, 2006

Hot Sax

By Staff

In his 76 years on earth, Sonny Rollins has played with jazz gods like Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, overcome a heroin addiction, fled his home in New York as the World Trade Center collapsed a block away with only a ...

October 26, 2006

They Came, They Rocked, They Conquered

By Staff

The Young Turks are taking Isla Vista by storm, but not by force, as they continue to confidently conquer the hearts and ears of partygoers with a unique style of rock that utterly defies categorization. With a style tha...

October 26, 2006

Garry Trudeau: Artist, Activist & All-Around Awesome American

By Staff

What hasn't been said about Garry Trudeau?

October 26, 2006

The Magic Touch

By Staff

Magic, mayhem and mystery - these qualities alone can each make a movie interesting, but when properly combined, they make for an Oscar-worthy film. Director Christopher Nolan, of "Memento" fame, is in top form with his ...

October 26, 2006

Best Served Cold

By Staff

Last Friday, rising indie darlings She Wants Revenge performed at the UCen as part of the Associated Students Program Board's fall lineup.

October 26, 2006

Oh Happy Dagger

By Staff

The Bulgarian National Theatre's production of "Romeo and Juliet" was a night of rain-soaked, romantically charged drama. This stylish modernization of the classic love story used a combination of dark comedy and dance t...

October 26, 2006

Artsweek Calendar October 26-November 1

By Staff

Calendar for 10/26/06 Thursday (10/26): He’s the first-ever editorial cartoonist to win a Pulitzer and the creator of one of the coolest comic strips in the history of mankind, Doonesbury. That’s right boys a...

October 19, 2006

Let’s Do The Time Warp Again

By Mollie Vandor

What happens when you combine Shakespearean dialogue, ancient Roman characters and 20th-century fashion, and then set it all to a thoroughly modern techno beat? You get the production of "Timon of Athens" that is current...

October 19, 2006

Protect Ya Neck

By Tyler Vickers

Three Killa Bees - also known as members and affiliates of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan - swarmed the UCen Hub last Sunday, creating hive-minded excitement with their genuine intensity, classically gritty beats and enough...

October 19, 2006

Let’s Get Physical

By Rachel Hommel

According to Bulgarian National Theatre Director Lilia Abadjieva, "Love defeats death; it is stronger than death, yet at the same time it leads to it."

October 19, 2006

Oh, Brother

By Colin Marshall

If the success of exported films and sitcoms is any indication, people find the lives of middle-class Britons - even, or maybe especially, the unremarkable ones - to be highly entertaining.