UCSB Students To Celebrate ‘National Coming Out Day’
Today is National Coming Out Day, a nationwide event that provides an opportunity for students with diverse sexualities to share their stories and publicly come out of the closet.
The Pattern | Immediately | Lookout!
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.
Pressure 4-5 | Burning the Process | Dreamworks
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.
The Strokes | Is This It? | RCA Records
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.
Menage a Trois
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 timing.
The Death of a Novel
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.
Weather Palace
I am lazy. The weathercave is cold in the winter and hot in the summer with extremely poor plumbing. On the bright side, it’s stationary. All I ask for is a home without wheels. So, while the weathercave has remained the same, the weatherneighbors have not. With all the class and elegance, it’s like living […]
Senator Pushes for Visa Tracking System
California Senator Dianne Feinstein announced Tuesday that she would hold off on a proposal to place a moratorium on international student visas but will continue her push for a $32.3 million appropriations package to implement an electronic tracking system of international students.
Fourteen Million Years in Tibet
“I’ve been on top of six thousand-meter-high mountains in Central Tibet,” UCSB Geologist Bradley Hacker said. “They don’t really have a particular name. Just features out in the middle of the Plateau.”
Pernicious Plover Ploy
At what point does environmental concern become a threat to the environmentalism itself? When it’s mixed with hypocrisy, for starters.