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Cat Power | The Greatest | Matador Records

January 26, 2006 by

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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Stand by Your Man

January 19, 2006 by

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 Presents | Doin’ the Blitzkrieg Bop

January 19, 2006 by

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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Syriana | Reality Check

January 19, 2006 by

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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Movie Reivew: The Producers | Break a Leg

January 19, 2006 by

"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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Last Holiday | Holiday Fit For a Queen

January 19, 2006 by

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

January 19, 2006 by

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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Winter Wonderland

January 12, 2006 by

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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Old MacDonald Had a Script

January 12, 2006 by

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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Eternal Debate, Round 15

January 12, 2006 by

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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The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth | RCA

January 12, 2006 by

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 t...
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The Elected | Sun, Sun, Sun | Sub Pop

January 12, 2006 by

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.
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Ryan Adams | 29 | Lost Highway

January 12, 2006 by

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 frettin...
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Artist in Profile: Allison Anders

November 17, 2005 by

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 w...
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Live: Death Cab for Cutie @ The Wiltern

November 17, 2005 by

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 ...
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