Artsweek

January 27, 2005

Lights, Camera, Festival

By Brenna Boyce

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is here again, and everyone involved wants you to know, it's not just for the "celeb" types. There are plenty of films and events geared toward a young, hip audience ...

January 27, 2005

Your Mission, If You Choose To Accept It…

By Harrison Coltun

10-10-10 sounds like a perfect score in an ice skating competition, but don't look for any whiney Canadians or Russians here. Formally called Project Rosebud, the new and proper name is the Sotheby's International Realty...

January 27, 2005

Sweet and Soulful

By Aly Comingore

Fusing gospel, jazz, blues, reggae and hip hop among a group of female a cappella singers seems a feat to be accomplished. Now mix with that a historically driven and politically inclined mindset and one can begin to und...

January 27, 2005

Attack on Precinct 13 | Unlucky 13

By Colin Marshall

Critically, it's always difficult to determine how to handle remakes. If the original was truly brilliant enough to warrant revived attention after the passage of decades, the comparison deck is impossibly stacked agains...

January 27, 2005

Hotel Rwanda | Check-out Time

By Harrison Coltun

Movies about real events are always a tough sell to an escapist public. Part of the enjoyment of movies is the break they provide from the mundane, and, unless the story is overly dramatic, people aren't always intereste...

January 27, 2005

Ani DiFranco | Knuckle Down | Righteous Babe Records

By Jory Dominguez

It is always striking how deftly attuned Ani DiFranco is to her own psychology, as well as her ability to write unreservedly with objective accordance and poetic simplicity.

January 27, 2005

Simple Plan | Still Not Getting Any | Attacked by Plastic

By Aaron Marienthal

If you feel like you are stuck in the 7th grade these days, Simple Plan's new album, Still Not Getting Any, would be an appropriate choice of music.

January 20, 2005

O, Superwoman

By Brenna Boyce

Laurie Anderson, one of the premiere artists, musicians and minds of our time is suspiciously inconspicuous. Her clothes are dark and plain, her hair short and nondescript, her voice soft, low and soothing enough to lull...

January 20, 2005

Bringing the Office Home

By Harrison Coltun

"In Good Company" is mediocrity at best. The comedy is too "PG," the acting is lukewarm and the story is too frivolous to really get the audience involved. Writer and director Paul Weitz does a fine job at the helm.

January 20, 2005

The Hives Bring the Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Happiest Place on Earth

By Brad Vargyas

The Hives are something of the musical equivalent of Muhammad Ali, full of a sort of arrogance and swagger that lets everyone know that they distinguish themselves from the crowd. The Hives had the chance to go a full tw...

January 20, 2005

An Evening of Hapa Shorts

By Lindsey Miller

The Hapa Project, which began three years ago, is a collection of about 800 photographs of people with Hapa roots and their answers to the question, "What are you?"

January 20, 2005

Heroin? No Thanks I’m Full

By Alexia Ferracuti

Though entirely barren of religious sanctimony, "Maria Full of Grace" deigns the prayer from which its title derives, designating it as one whispered from the present day underworld of international heroin smuggling.

January 20, 2005

Low | The Great Destroyer | SubPop

By Brad Vargyas

Low, a slow core band hailing from the frigid icy tundra known to Westerners as Minnesota, have been around since 1994, formed as a sort of alternative to grunge. To date, they have achieved their biggest success when th...

January 20, 2005

William Shatner | Has Been | Shout! Factory

By Mark Batalla

For the hesitant listener, just pretend this album doesn't have Shatner at all. You'll soon realize the collaboration with Ben Folds allows for an eclectic offering in both tone and genre.

January 13, 2005

Santa Barbara in the Spotlight

By Brenna Boyce

What was once a small, overlooked film festival forced to the outskirts by behemoths like Cannes and Sundance, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) has grown into an impressive and star-studded nine-day ...

January 13, 2005