Artsweek
I had been spending the majority of last Saturday locked in my room listening to Devo's "Freedom of Choice" on repeat, hiding under my covers and stroking an autographed 8x10 glossy of Mark Mothersbau...
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Question: What do you expect when you go see a movie about Pocahontas? If you answered cuddly forest creatures in a song and dance musical spectacle, then be prepared to be disappointed by "The New Wo...
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Adam Curtis' BBC documentary, titled "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear," played at Campbell Hall this Monday to a sizeable audience ready to revel in what promised to be a Bus...
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Saying you dislike Belle and Sebastian is a lot like saying you don't like that quiet guy in your Comp Lit section because he understands the reading better than you do - you'll just come off as frust...
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When I first listened to Cat Power's latest, The Greatest, I didn't get it. There were no hit singles, nothing to satisfy my short attention span.
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If you're looking to indulge yourself in a full sensory experience that is just slightly left of center, may we suggest to you Santa Barbara's own Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF).
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Mrs. Henderson, an upper-class woman living in London in the 1930s, is well into her 70s when she loses her husband and consequentially finds herself at loose ends. At the suggestion of one of her fri...
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In the corporate world of oil and politics, the real power lies behind and beneath the government. In the impoverished Middle East, where young men and women are lured from their seemingly inescapable...
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"Under the right circumstances, a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit!" With this unthinkable declaration, Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick), the socially awkward accountant with su...
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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. ...
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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 th...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Ends on ‘good terms’ but is blocked on Instagram
Slow fade
Ghosting them on a random Monday
“It’s not you, it’s me”
Drunk Uber “we need to talk” voice memo
Presents a notes app pros and cons list
Asks to still be friends
Drops their stuff off, never speaks to them again
Texts “this isn’t working” then posts from another country
“It’s not me, it’s you”
Tells them they need to focus on Econ 10A
Delivers a hand-written letter to their mom
