Entertainment

I used to be a spy

I watched USA Network’s Burn Notice from beginning to end: every season and 99% of the shows. When it started in 2007, the advertisements looked mildly interesting. When I watched, I liked the camaraderie of the main group, the split screen of the different events happening at the same time and Fiona’s clothes. Michael Weston, […]

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Medical Care for All

Elysium, the recent Matt Damon as good guy/ Jodie Foster as bad guy Sci-fi movie was a piece of summer entertainment. Earth is a wasteland of people with few resources who speak Spanish while Elysium is the space station where the English and French speaking folk live with all luxuries of life. The two habitats

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Hitchcock Connection

UCSB’s Arts and Lectures Summer Film Series brought us Alfred Hitchcock Nights: Eight Classic Films of Obsession, Mystery and Suspense. The films are shown on Wednesday nights on campus and on Friday nights at the Country Courthouse sunken garden. I was familiar with a couple of the movies that were to be shown but not

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Blurred Lines

Robin Thicke’s song of the summer, Blurred Lines, is a fun romp. Pulling the tune from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up,” and some Prince vocal styling, this song is fun, dance-able and produces a wicked ear-worm. Then there is the whole reason the song is popular: its video. The main video features Thicke

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