One Nation, Under God, Uncoerced …
Gail Marshall’s request that her advisory commission itself decide whether to make the Pledge was squarely in line with that Court ruling and with longstanding American distaste for coerced patriotism.
Medical Coverage Costs To Increase For UCSB Employees
UCSB employees will see an increase in the cost of their medical benefits in 2002, reflecting the increasing rates for healthcare across the state and nation.
Harry Potter: The Wizardry of Madison Avenue
The buildup for “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” resembled the sort of drama and fanfare reserved for royal weddings and papal appointments.
Jewel | This Way | Atlantic Records
While it seems at first glance that a pop sensibility has eaten up and regurgitated another talent for blind-baby-bird-public consumption, there are some really great tracks hidden in This Way.
John Coltrane | The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording | Impulse!
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording, the first issue of John Coltrane’s final captured live performance, reaches an ecstatic boiling point in the free jazz movement.
John Mayer | Room for Squares | Sony
If this were a hard and fast rule Room for Squares would probably be pulled over for reckless endangerment. The album rides the line between following the caravan and diverging into John Mayer’s own aesthetic road.
Weather: We’re The Golden Children Turning Bronze
The Hometown WeatherQuintilogy: #3 Santa Barbara is too expensive for people with actual problems. Ridiculous local apartment rents equal a house mortgage in any rural shithole, so you can’t afford a severe psychosis, drug addiction or unexpected fetus. The cost of living in I.V. actually helps insulate our bubble of perfection – people with real […]
Junior UCSB Student Falls from DP Cliff
UCSB junior business economics major Jeffrey Cronin will spend his 21st birthday tomorrow in the hospital after sustaining severe injuries in a fall off the cliffs on Del Playa Dr. on Tuesday morning.
Rughe Elephant
The Lompoc Economic Development Committee member is in trouble for sending letters to south coast newspapers, stating that “Muslims are out to destroy our world.”