I was first introduced to the comics Life in Hell and Ernie Pook’s Comeek when I moved to San Jose in 1985 for grad school. The weekly independent newspaper, The Metro, carried Matt Groening’s and Lynda Barry’s graphic artistry. I loved their work. Life in Hell was satirical, biting and irreverent. Akbar and Jef, the […]
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Angélique Kidjo played at UCSB to an enthusiastic and participative audience. Kidjo, performing from her new CD, Eve, was juicy for her voice and visual performance. Dressed in a magenta and orange African patterned ruffled outfit, she swirled and danced with energy and expression. The music, Afrobeat in nature, took on reggae tones when the
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TNT’s 2014 summer crime drama, Murder in the First, focused on one crime through the entire season. It was more like focusing on one suspect, a character played by Tom Felton who was Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter series. Felton plays Erich Blunt, a virtual reality app developer with money, power, and an ego
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Yesterday I woke up to the email Hey! Want to join me at a Jack Johnson concert tomorrow night (Monday)?” The only answer to that question was “what time do we leave?” GirlFriend’s husband works at the SB bowl and got her 2 tickets. Sweet. Since she got the tickets, I needed to treat her
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Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead, Office Space) turned his attention to the topics of start-up companies and geekdom, crossed The Social Network with The Big Bang Theory, and brought us HBO’s Silicon Valley. The main story is about a guy who has an awesome compression algorithm and begins a company with this idea. The characters
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