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August 27, 2015

The Men From U.N.C.L.E. Need To Find a Better Plot

By Alex Wehrung

“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” is a bit of a misleading title. For starters, there’s more than one man in a leading role. Secondly, who or what is U.N.C.L.E.? A spy organization? A coalition force? A men’s fashion lin...

August 27, 2015

FYF Fest 2015 Highlights

By Artsweek Editor

  Despite recent backlash from punk-rock communities about the growing Indie music presence, Goldenvoice’s FYF Fest invaded the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena & Exposition Park for the second time with the most ec...

August 17, 2015

Outside Lands 2015 Highlights

By Artsweek Editor

On Friday, August 7th, over 70,000 music fans flooded Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields for the eighth annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Every year, Hawaiian shirts increase in popularity, the food gets more e...

August 2, 2015

Mad Decent Saves the Best Block Party Stop for its L.A. Home

By Artsweek Editor

Mad Decent Block Party, an outdoor festival-esque music event, will hit the road on a tour that will hopefully redefine people’s ideas of what a “block party” should be like. And just like the previous six, this on...

August 2, 2015

‘Sharknado 3?’ Oh Hell Yes!

By Alex Wehrung

The way I saw it, I had one of two options: see “Pixels,” a movie that I knew I was going to hate and give more of my money to the hellspawn that is Adam Sandler in the process, or see “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!,”...

July 30, 2015

FYF Returns to L.A. Memorial Sports Arena and Exposition Park with Great Summer Festival Lineup

By Artsweek Editor

Over the last decade, large music festivals have risen to stark prominence in America and redefined the live musical performance marketplace. The most successful of festival curators (obvious examples being Golden Voice ...

July 30, 2015

Outside Lands to Invade Golden Gate Park

By Artsweek Editor

While signifying tanning sessions and beach outings in most American locales, the month of August in San Francisco demarcates two happenings unique to the city. First, a perfectly sadistic climate that is cold enough to ...

July 30, 2015

Hard Summer Redefines Modern Electronic Music Festivals

By Nisa Smith

In an attempt to accommodate all of the neon and spandex-wearing festivalgoers and their desires, the HARD Summer Music Festival is returning to Fairplex in Pomona, CA for 2015. Taking on its 8th year, the festival will ...

July 30, 2015

Ian McKellen Redefines Our Dear “Mr. Holmes”

By Alex Wehrung

We’ve seen a lot of different versions of Sherlock Holmes over the years, from the stereotypical deerstalker-wearing version popularized and made iconic by the likes of Basil Rathbone to the much-adored, long-faced Ben...

July 13, 2015

He’s Back. What a Surprise.

By Alex Wehrung

If anything, this movie proves that if you set your expectations low enough, anything will satisfy you. Was “Terminator Genisys” necessary? No. Was it fun?  A bit.  Does it prey on your nostalgia? Eyup. At the end ...

July 6, 2015

A Satisfactory Catharsis: ‘Inside Out’ is a Good Time

By Alex Wehrung

Imagination can be a wonderful thing, depending on how it’s applied. If you muck it up, you end up with something that seems cool, but in reality, you realize that someone fell asleep behind the controls. Take “Docto...

June 30, 2015

We Remember Them: Honoring the Unlucky Bright Minds of Our Youth

By Alec Hartnett

On a terrible May 23rd, in 2014, the UCSB and the Santa Barbara communities suffered greatly at the hands of contorted misfortune. Six students bore the brunt of this onslaught: Katie Cooper, George Chen, Veronika Weiss,...

June 30, 2015

Jurassic World: Life Will Always Find a Way to Bite You in the Ass

By Alex Wehrung

Whether or not the Jurassic Park die-hards hate this movie and the average blockbuster junkie loves it, I think we can all agree on one thing: It could have been a lot worse. For one thing, you’d think that the people ...

June 25, 2015

Azeem X Underbelly live at the Batcave

By Artsweek Editor

On May 16, United Kingdom citizen Damon Poole shared a Facebook event page in jest titled “Azeem’s Senior Flute Recital.” True to the haphazard nature by which viral Internet trends begin, Poole’s “share” inv...

June 18, 2015

Mystic Braves Bring Bohemia to SOhO

By Nadine Bedwan

A fusion of food dye and rubbing alcohol coincided atop clear vinyl disks hooked up to projectors that refracted psychedelic spatterings of color onto the stage. On the side wall, a black and white spiral spun over portr...

June 7, 2015

Chromeo and Glitch Mob Funk-ify the SB Bowl

By Devon McNaughton

Chromeo and The Glitch Mob share a penchant for retro-futurism. Yet the manifestation of this is so vastly different between the groups it’s almost jarring to see them on the same bill. The Glitch Mob is all aggressive...