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"Another Gay Movie" was the belle of the OUTrageous! ball, as audiences lined the streets of Santa Barbara to engage in what could possibly be the most un-PC sex comedy to date.
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“Meth” by Sierra Christman Crystal methamphetamine. It’s not just an addictive drug; “It’s money, it’s trouble, it’s the devil, basically,” claims one o...
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As a genre, historical fiction typically gazes backward and poses the big "what ifs," asking how things might have turned out had the wind blown a little differently all those years ago.
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Calendar for the week of 11/9 Thursday (November 9): Arts & Lectures presents “Children of a Vanished World” – a two-part multimedia performance featuring photos, music and a li...
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Did Dante DeCaro really just ask me if my momma chews tobacca? Hot damn, I think he did. DeCaro, former songwriter and guitarist of the now-defunct Hot Hot Heat, and current guitarist of Wolf Parade, ...
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A handful of local musicians are attempting to have their names etched onto the roster of American jazz innovators by joining in the long tradition of improvisational musical dialogue. These Isla Vist...
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If your Halloween weekend didn't include as many sexual exploits as you would have liked; if "Brokeback Mountain" left you yearning for more; if you're "curious," or just in the mood for some unconven...
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Landscape paintings can be, well, boring at times - showing vast panoramas of unknown spaces with great artistic skill, but not always providing a direct connection for the viewer.
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"Whether revered or reviled in their lifetimes, history's movers framed their questions in ways that were entirely disrespectful of conventional wisdom. Civilization has always advanced in the shimmer...
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Sometimes, it feels like directors are stuffing us with so much realism we're likely to choke on it. However, director Henry Selick's "The Nightmare Before Christmas," which was recently re-released i...
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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 fr...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 revil...
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
