Artsweek

June 26, 2002

Summer Event Guide

By Staff

Artsweek recommends you leave your house occasionally. But hell, we don't. Listed chronologically by date.

June 26, 2002

Summer Movie Guide

By Staff

First, a word of advice - raise the armrests. Moveable armrests are a boon for anyone with an s/o and even a nanoliter of hormones. Even if you're alone, raise the armrests; knowing what you're missing might just be the ...

June 26, 2002

Summer Record Releases

By Staff

Artsweek entered into a psilocybin trance wherein all the secrets of the record labels were revealed unto us. Never ones to deprive the goody-two-shoes of titillating news from the future, we hereby give you a list of fo...

May 29, 2002

Year of the Rat

By DJ FatKid

We've all got to start somewhere. For Callous, an MC with the Humboldt-come-Isla Vista hip hop ensemble Dirty Rats, everything started on the floor. "I remember when I was first in the living room in our old house," he s...

May 29, 2002

You’ve heard the best, now hear the rest …

By Daniel Okamura

Not only was their demo inside, but also a letter to us written on binder paper, a broken No. 2 pencil, an E.T. figurine, a folded zine and a pack of Dentyne Ice with one piece already taken out .

May 29, 2002

From Back Story to Center Stage

By DJ FatKid

We'd all be lucky if this review had half the wit of Tom Stoppard.

May 29, 2002

Insomnia: No Rest for the Crooked

By Richard Block

In his latest thriller, director Christopher Nolan ("Memento") explores what happens when an intelligent person is forced to do important things while totally exhausted.

May 29, 2002

N.E.R.D. | In Search Of | Virgin

By Lee Shaker

N.E.R.D is a baby of the Neptunes production team, designed to excite all you honkies with quick riffs and rhymes about drugs and sex.

May 29, 2002

Count Bass-D | Dwight Spitz | Day By Day Entertainment

By Mr. Bell

Any album that begins with the Windows 98 start-up theme has to be either dope or stuck in the past.

May 29, 2002

Arlo | Stab the Unstoppable Hero | Sub Pop

By Collin Mitchell

Arlo's second release blows out the garage doors with unbelievable force and drips with harmonies and powerpop riffs that seem to be created from some sort of divine intervention.

May 29, 2002

Hip Hop Top 10

By Staff

May 23, 2002

Extravaganza?

By Jessica Jardine Collin Mitchell Daniel Okamura

This year's Extravaganza was about as off as a carton of two-week-old milk that you really want to use for your morning bowl of Lucky Charms but you know is just plain stanky and sour.

May 23, 2002

‘A Talky Piece of Puke’

By Daniel Okamura

I read a blurb somewhere that said, "David Mamet is one of the most distinctive voices in modern American drama." He is - well, perhaps one of the loudest voices.

May 23, 2002

Minority Retort

By David Downs

Today's Digital Video Festival at 7 p.m. in I.V. Theater will showcase 13 shorts brought to you by the Digital Video Association of UCSB.

May 23, 2002

About A Boy: Haircut, One Unit of Time

By Erin James

The only way to truly maximize paltry pleasure in one's life, while avoiding any productive or meaningful endeavor, is to carefully structure one's daily activities.

May 23, 2002

The Breeders | Title TK | Elektra

By Collin Mitchell

A nine-year sabbatical might induce a brighter outlook on life or a regained sense of humanity, but Kim Deal has soaked this record in broad, unrefined cynicism.