Delightfully Dramatic
UCSB’s Dept. of Theater and Dance premiered Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Idiot’s Delight,” in Hatlen Theater on Feb. 29. The play takes place in the 1930s and is essentially centered around the ominous possibility of war, as the story’s respective characters ruminate on the declining state of international affairs.
Gauchos Brave Poor Conditions to Finish Third
The Gaucho men’s golf squad recovered from a poor start to take third place in the UC Riverside Braveheart Classic on Tuesday. After shooting a 320 on Monday, good for a share of eighth place, the Gauchos went on to shoot 300 and 290 in the subsequent Tuesday rounds. Their final total of 910 was just 10 strokes shy of winner Cal Poly’s and only two strokes behind the host, UC Riverside.
Vital Video
British artist Isaac Julien is world renowned for his innovative film installations, but most UCSB students probably know him from lectures in law & society, sociology, political science and any other number of social science classes in which his award-winning documentary “Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask” about the titular theorist have been screened.
The Wednesday Gnar
“Epic” – by far the most overused word in the world of surfers and surf stories. Surfers drop the E-bomb at a frightening frequency to describe their most insane rides from years ago, or even their oddly fun chest-high wedge at Sands.
The Line-Up Week of 3/6/08
1. If you know anything about musical theater, you know the name Stephen Sondheim. Now, see the man behind the musicals in an on-stage interview with New York Times columnist Frank Rich at Santa Barbara’s very own Granada Theatre. The event starts at 4 p.m. on March 8, and tickets are $22 for students.
Down in Flames
The QB hopes you join him in heckling some Canadians at tomorrow night’s spring soccer opener against the Canadian U-23 team. Don’t know anything about Canadian soccer, but they’re still going down, eh?
Oh So Emo
Buried beneath the inessential trash – the 10-minute digression of sonic experimentation of the album’s titular track comes to mind – is the most essential, “emotional” album that Stephen Malkmus has released in years. Malkmus dropped the uneven but often brilliant Real Emotional Trash, his first release on Matador Records since 2005, on an eager army of anxiously awaiting listeners March 4.
Better Mail Than Hail
Every once in a while, I’ll get an angry email from someone who just doesn’t buy what I’m selling, but like those annoying Facebook applications, I constantly want more. Which is why for the first time in Weatherhuman history, I’m opening my mailbox for an “Ask the ‘Human” segment, to be run on the Opinion […]
Hebrew Word in Club’s Ad Upsets Jewish Students
An advertisement published in the Daily Nexus evoked controversy among some Jewish students and community members yesterday when it included a sacred Hebrew form of the word “God.”