Artsweek

April 5, 2017

Two Door Cinema Club Arriving Next Friday

By Jasmine Rodriguez

The band’s legendary idols, Prince and Bowie, undoubtedly inspired the band to pay homage to the past generations of music that solidified their grandeur with enticing dancefloor anthems.

April 5, 2017

UCSB Filmmakers Join Forces with Jack Johnson

By Allison Garfield

Set to a soundtrack by alumnus Jack Johnson, the film will cover four unique students and have their interconnected stories unfold in Isla Vista over the course of their last day of Spring Quarter.

April 3, 2017

Travis Scott to Light Up SB Bowl

By Max Pasion-Gonzales

At a Travis Scott show, the rapper and his dedicated audience are wild in every sense of the word.

April 3, 2017

Lucidity Fest’s Blissful Gathering Set for This Weekend

By Jack Wallace

While many will attend Lucidity this year for its renowned workshops on permaculture, sustainability, spirituality and community-building, the music takes precedence over all for a significant portion of festival-goers.

March 15, 2017

Mr. Burns Confounds, But Entertains Audience

By Allison Garfield

Overall, I found myself lost and confused during the majority of the entertaining, humorous, obscure play.

March 15, 2017

Cancer, Grief and Video Games

By Phi Do

Between the two screens sit a box of tissues and a picture frame of Green holding Joel: his son, the video game’s star and a 4-year-old diagnosed with brain cancer.

March 15, 2017

Rising Duo Joyzu Bring Bright Sounds to SB

By F.P. Santangelo Jr

While witnessing Joyzu play live at M8TRX nightclub, the one thing that stood out most was the joy they shared on stage, which their stage name aptly foreshadows.

March 10, 2017

It’s Lit!: Can a Word Narrate a Thousand Pictures?

By Jasmine Benafghoul, Lauren Bennett, Phi Do

This week, Jasmine Benafghoul discusses the dangerous enthrall of preserving aesthetic beauty in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, while Lauren Bennett reviews the struggles over language in Colson Whitehead’...

March 9, 2017

Noche Flamenca Lights Campbell Ablaze

By Allison Garfield

The singing and music was impressive, but it was not hard to figure out that everyone was there to see the dancing.

March 9, 2017

‘Logan’ is a Movie for the Comic Books

By Ryan Song

Even though “Logan” faltered in its second half, it is still one of the more enthralling comic book movies to come out recently, as the first half alone transcends the comic book genre.

March 9, 2017

Dope Metaphors Makes a Triumphant Return

By Allie Graydon

This Dope Metaphors showcase, more than any other, felt like a cathartic experience for everyone involved.

March 9, 2017

Diehl and Salvant Conclude UCSB’s Jazz Revival

By Allie Graydon

This final installment of the Jazz series represented the legacy of musical talent: combining classic music with new prominent artists.

March 3, 2017

Local Favorites Clean Spill Come to SOhO

By Tracy Smith

As Santa Barbara natives, the amount of feedback they received from the crowd was not only expected, but well-deserved.

March 3, 2017

‘Lydia’ and the Connection to an American Dream

By Allison Garfield

With the tempestuous social climate of the early ’70s being so reminiscent of current events, the Flores family illustrates the real, pertinent struggle of immigration and finding identity — a struggle still occurri...

March 3, 2017

The Friday Review: Drunk by Thundercat

By Max Pasion-Gonzales

On Thundercat’s whimsical cacophonic trek through the land of Drunk, he has had a little too much liquid courage and finally lets out the thoughts that a sober self pushes to the back confines of the mind.

March 2, 2017

‘Get Out’ Conveys a Message Within Horror

By Christian Watts

The film always maintains a lighthearted and entertaining demeanor, but its acknowledgement of the issue of racial microaggression and even the principle of eugenics is something to stop and think about.