Bruce Springsteen | Devils and Dust | Sony
Bruce Springsteen, better known to fans as “the Boss” or “Bruuuuuuuce,” has always been the hero of the workingman. Even though he’s been elevated to godlike status, while receiving commercial and critical acclaim, he still comes off as a sort of blue-collar everyman.
Ben Folds | Songs For Silverman | Epic
After a four-and-a-half-year break, which included numerous side projects such as the Bens, William Shatner’s Has Been and a trilogy of EPs, Ben Folds has finally released the follow up to his solo debut, Rockin’ the Suburbs, with the long-awaited and long-delayed, Songs For Silverman.
May 5 – May 12, 2005
Arts & Lectures presents a double-billed performance by Grammy-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves along with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. People magazine calls Reeves’ voice an “awesome instrument,” and Vanity Fair describes Blanchard’s playing as “an astonishingly fluid language both luxurious and controlled.”
Moooove to Merced
Drat, I missed Bobcat Day! UC Merced had an open house recently for students who hadn’t already decided to not attend next year. I used to live in the Central Valley, and people like to mock it by saying it smells like cow manure.
Baseball: The Big West Is Baseball Country
Sure, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has six spots in next year’s Big Dance wrapped up. Maybe the Big 12 Conference already has its name in the running for all four of the 2006 Bowl Championship Series Bowls, and the Pac-10 can’t wait for women’s volleyball season to start.
Can I Stay Forever?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. A dangerous pastime, I know. But as I stand abreast with the rest of the seniors, eye to eye with the most horrible monster the world has ever known, doing a lot of thinking is the very least we can do. I’d much rather fight, slay the beast that we peep toward with the dazzling purity of Legolas demolishing that oliphaunt upon the Pelennor fields, but the demon that we face is, sadly, impervious to all attack. Even arrows. It is no sea monster, no robotic leviathan, no ghoulish spawn of the undead. No, no, what we are set to face is something 10 trillion times more horrifying: adulthood, or perhaps more specifically, fucking after college.
SB Contendors Tip the Scales for Fight Night
Boxers for Pi Kappa Alpha’s (PIKE) 14th annual Fight Night sized each other up yesterday night at the pre-fight weigh-in, giving themselves and the public an idea of what to expect at UCSB’s annual brawl.
The Ack Attack: Paradise Lost and Found
Well kids, it’s that time of year again. I know you’re just as stoked as I am. Only one more day until the annual week and a half of utter mayhem begins. Cinco de Mayo isn’t a day for celebrating Mexican history, it’s a day for celebrating those who have the balls to ride the heaviest waves on Earth.
Recruiter Ban Debate Prompts Forum
The UCSB Academic Senate will host a “town hall” meeting today to discuss a proposal that seeks to ban military recruitment on campus. The meeting will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the McCune Conference room on the sixth floor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Building.
Cycling: Gaucho Cyclists Finish Season in Seventh Place
The UCSB cycling team will have to wait for next year to make an appearance at Nationals after finishing out its season with a seventh place showing at last weekend’s Western Collegiate Cycling Conference Regionals in Reno, Nev.