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Student Film Strikes Back

September 29, 2005 by

It must have been four years ago when the Los Angeles Times published an article by an angered parent who denounced the UCSB Film Studies Dept. The article argued that our beloved film program was fai...
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Flight Plan | In-Flight Movie

September 29, 2005 by

Does anyone really enjoy flying with the high airfares, worse-than-microwave food and flight attendants who don't get paid enough to give a damn? Let's not forget the worst part: all the smelly passen...
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Paul Hardcastle | Hardcastle 4 | Trippin ‘N’ Rhythm

September 29, 2005 by

Despite their somewhat unimaginative sequential titling scheme, having listened to electronic music producer Paul Hardcastle's previous three self-titled albums is not a prerequisite for the enjoyment...
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Wolf Parade | Apologies to the Queen Mary

September 29, 2005 by

Why Wolf Parade is apologizing to anyone is beyond me. It's the people who should be getting on their knees, repenting after what Wolf Parade released Tuesday. Masterpieces like Apologies to the Queen...
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Kanye West | Late Registration | Roc-A-Fella

September 29, 2005 by

Kanye West: hip hop's class act, a man who boldly proclaimed on national television that, "George Bush doesn't like black people." For years, West has paid his dues behind the scenes, producing for th...
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Who Wants To Be A Rock Star?

September 22, 2005 by

If a picture really is worth a thousand words, then the photography featured in Nicholas Zinner's I Hope You Are All Happy Now works as the quintessential memoir on fame, friends and worldly travel.
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Artist in Profile

September 22, 2005 by

Animation seems to be going through somewhat of a revolution right now. Everyone can go out and independently create their own cartoon series without the backing of some big bucks corporation.
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2046 | Who Feels Like Chinese?

September 22, 2005 by

This particular film review is much more than a reaction and opinion to a piece of cinematic artwork, it's a homage. Think about this review as a giant thank-you letter to Cynthia Felando, a film prof...
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The Aristocrats | Stop Me If You’ve Heard This

September 22, 2005 by

The joke begins like this: A man walks into a talent agent's office and says that he has a new act, a family act. "Describe it to me," says the talent agent reluctantly, not particularly looking to ad...
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Rolling Stones | A Bigger Bang | Virgin Records

September 22, 2005 by

Once upon a time, a bunch of old geezers got back together after years of tough love and too many drugs, to create a bunch of nostalgia music on an embarrassingly excessive salary.
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Bloc Party | Silent Alarm Remixed | Atlantic Records

September 22, 2005 by

So many things can go wrong when compiling an effort like Silent Alarm Remixes that one begins to wonder why bands attempt these "makeover records" at all.
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The Like | Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? | Geffen

September 22, 2005 by

Let us flashback three years, to a simpler time. It was then that three-piece girl group, The Like, was spending its nights filling opening-act slots at small L.A. clubs and hipster house parties. Bac...
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The Artsweek Calendar: September 22 – September 28, 2005

September 22, 2005 by

First day back got you all stressed out and nervous? Feel like you already need a vacation? Well, tonight Arts & Lectures offers up the next best thing.
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The Many Faces of Ray Bradbury

May 26, 2005 by

If you had asked Ray Bradbury to estimate a head count for his Thursday night lecture in Campbell Hall, he probably would have told you the place was pretty damn full. What some would consider most fa...
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Star Wars Episode III | GRRRURRR!!!

May 26, 2005 by

Watching "Star Wars" is like going to your first baseball game; it's just good, clean fun. Whatever your level of love affair with "Star Wars" may be, it is hard to deny that the series is more than a...
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