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January 19, 2006

Last Holiday | Holiday Fit For a Queen

By Harrison Coltun

When playing chess, if you have lost your queen, you can change a pawn that moves all the way across the board back into that queen. This allegory obviously brings us to singer/actress Queen Latifah. In her own respect, ...

January 19, 2006

Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat | Team Love Records

By Aly Comingore

With Rabbit Fur Coat, Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis sets out to secure herself a spot alongside the Patsy Clines and Tammy Wynettes of decades past. The startling part of such a bold venture is that Lewis succeeds wi...

January 12, 2006

Winter Wonderland

By Aly Comingore

With the start of what looks to be the warmest winter Santa Barbara has seen in years, we here at Artsweek cannot help but get a little giddy at the thought of a new quarter. For us at least, the next few months promise ...

January 12, 2006

Old MacDonald Had a Script

By Harrison Coltun

Have you ever been sitting in a movie and thought to yourself, "I could write something better than this trash"? Well, here is your chance.

January 12, 2006

Eternal Debate, Round 15

By Harrison Coltun

There are many choices we meager human beings must deal with. Difficult choices such as sweet and sour or barbeque, Backstreet Boys or *NSYNC and whether happiness is defined by love or money.

January 12, 2006

The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | RCA

By Jack Rubin

Four years ago, the Strokes' debut album Is This It rocked the world, prompting critics everywhere to declare them the band destined to save rock 'n' roll. They rode the wave of fame until 2003 when they released the hot...

January 12, 2006

The Elected | Sun, Sun, Sun | Sub Pop

By Aly Comingore

Fans of older Rilo Kiley cuts like "August" and "Small Figures in a Vast Expanse" will remember Blake Sennett as Jenny Lewis' right-hand man and unlikely replacement at the mic stand.

January 12, 2006

Ryan Adams | 29 | Lost Highway

By Aly Comingore

At the rate that Ryan Adams has been penning tunes as of late, some cannot help but worry that his meticulous composition and artistic integrity may begin to suffer. Meanwhile, others are just fretting that the poor guy ...

November 17, 2005

Artist in Profile: Allison Anders

By Harrison Coltun

We here at UCSB are extremely lucky. No not for our unnaturally close proximity to the great pacific Pacific or our numerous Nobel laureates but for something else. We have at our school a filmmaker who offers her unconv...

November 17, 2005

Live: Death Cab for Cutie @ The Wiltern

By Aly Comingore

Sure, Ben Gibbard may appear the atypical tough guy, but after Saturday night, one cannot dispute the fact that the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie had his game face on. Prone to wearing his heart on his sleeve, Death...

November 17, 2005

Moview Reveiw: The Ice Harvest | Lloyd Dobler Takes on the Mob

By Aly Comingore

Coming from someone who would like to think that John Cusack can do no wrong, it means a lot to say that the plot description for his latest venture, "The Ice Harvest," found me hesitant to see it at best. Presented with...

November 17, 2005

Live: Bulgarian Bebop @ Campbell Hall

By David Landes

It's hard to sit still in Campbell Hall when confronted with music so animated and danceable as to be banned under Soviet rule. Gypsy megastars Ivo Papasov, Yuri Yunakov, Neshko Neshev and Salif Ali are the creators of B...

November 17, 2005

Madonna | Confessions on a Dance Floor | Maverick

By Matt Cappiello

Pop music is indeed the sluttiest music. On Madonna's latest, Confessions on a Dance Floor, the constantly changing pop chameleon switches outfits once again, this time shorter, dancier, and much more revealing. When thi...

November 10, 2005

Steve Carell: Polka Dot in a World of Taupe

By Harrison Coltun

Star of stage and screen, both big and little, Steve Carell is becoming something of our generation's funniest comedians. Whether you know him from shows such as "The Daily Show," "The Office" or as mentally retarded Bri...

November 10, 2005

Damian Marley @ The Hub 11/6/2005 | Iron Like a Lion

By Jeff Gibson

"Ooh, yeah. We're jamming." As coils of smoke spiraled upward toward the rafters of the Hub last Sunday night, reggae aficionados crammed together in anticipation for one of the biggest musical prodigies to leave the isl...

November 10, 2005

Sketching Americana

By Ilana Berger

"bobrauschenbergamerica," the UCSB Dramatic Art Dept.'s latest production, exudes a warmth that will leave you clinging to your apple pie. Based on the works of modern artist Robert Rauschenberg, the play by Charles L. M...