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October 11, 2001

The Pattern | Immediately | Lookout!

By DJ FatKid

For every moment the band sounds like AC/DC, there's another where it sounds like the Stooges and yet another where it sounds like Pussy Galore.

October 11, 2001

Pressure 4-5 | Burning the Process | Dreamworks

By Jessica Jardine

In a time where musical genres, through fusion and collaboration, have become twisted like a knot of drunken contortionists, Pressure 4-5 sticks to what makes a rock band truly rock.

October 11, 2001

The Strokes | Is This It? | RCA Records

By David Downs

I am a frugal reviewer and I would never endorse a $15 CD with less than four really good songs. The Strokes' Is This It? has seven, and after one listen I skateboarded home humming the guitar hooks I remembered.

October 11, 2001

Menage a Trois

By Patrick Wright

Maybe it's the obsessive-compulsive disorder in me, but I am a sucker for the heist film. The idea of a perfect plan gets me every time - the way it is conceived and executed, the attention to detail, the precision timin...

October 11, 2001

The Death of a Novel

By Steven Ruszczycky

Movie studios have the habit of trying to make good things better. They try to redo good stories and interesting characters for a population with an ever-shrinking attention span.

September 27, 2001

Bob Dylan | Love and Theft | Columbia

By Patrick Wright

Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's 43rd album is Forest Gump without the upbeat, guileless hero.

September 27, 2001

See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil

By Erin James

"This [list] sends a message about the obstacles that exist in expressing a certain kind of viewpoint."

September 27, 2001

Masters of Horror Unite

By Steven Ruszczycky

It’s so rare to find a good horror novel these days. Most of the pulp junk on the shelves isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. Every time a new King or Straub book hits the shelves, fans of the macabr...

September 27, 2001

The Faint | Danse Macabre | Saddle Creek

By DJ FatKid

The Faint's use of analog synthesizers and live instrumentation is widely touted, but all I hear is Depeche Mode.

September 20, 2001

Meet the Band: Shaking the Hand that Bites

By Patrick DJ

Leaping from a self-released LP the group has been snapped up by Dreamworks, sent off into the Ozzfest maelstrom and set up with Orgy and Slipknot producer Jay Baumgardner.

September 20, 2001

Hitch Hiker in Hades

By Armando Alvarado

While Hades certainly has little of the meat market odor that permeates through many of the State Street clubs, it is clear that Hades focuses on providing a safe haven for Santa Barbara's queer community.

May 31, 2001

Film Review: “Shrek”

By Patrick Wright

Once upon a time in a bracken swamp there lived an ogre who just wanted to be left alone. Then along came Madison Avenue, which wanted to put him into a kid's meal with a soda and a side of fries.

May 31, 2001

Film Review: “Pearl Harbor”

By Andy Sywak

Clocking in at a whopping 183 minutes, the Jerry Bruckheimer produced, Michael Bay directed "Pearl Harbor" is quite a spectacle.

May 31, 2001

Book Review: Paper Bullets

By Eric Lister

Kip Fulbeck is fluent in the language of pop culture.

May 31, 2001

Jenne Raub’s Farewell

By Jenne Raub

Recently, as graduation looms in my very near future, my three-year stint as Artsweek editor came to a sweet end.

May 31, 2001

Cannibal Ox | The Cold Vein | Def Jux

By Trey Clark

"Life's ill / Sometimes life might kill." These are the first words, as well as the overall sentiment of Vast Aire and Vordul's first album, The Cold Vein.