Comedy Troupe To Host Event in Isla Vista Park
Anisq’ Oyo’ Park will play host tonight to the comedic performances of “Dees Guys,” a local comedy troupe of recent UCSB alumni who are currently producing an independent TV show.
It’s not polite to ask a lady that.
The QB’s favorite thing is when foreign dudes lie about their ages. If I were the Astros I’d rip up his contract and send him to play in Antarctica.
Super Censorship in China Smothers Hopes of Tibetans
Editor, Daily Nexus,
I always enjoy how people from totalitarian regimes – as nearly all Chinese students are with their full government sponsorships – come to America and take full advantage of our Constitutional rights of free speech and assembly.
Police Arrest UCSB Student Carrying Weapons in Residence Hall
A UCSB student carrying illegal knives and an illegal expandable baton was arrested in the San Miguel Residence Hall this morning.
Locals Remember Origins of Earth Day
On Jan. 29, 1969, employees working on Union Oil Platform A off the coast of Santa Barbara struck a pocket of natural gas thousands of feet beneath the ocean floor. The rupture caused a blowout, and attempts to cap the hole failed.
Advertisement Unnecessarily Attacks MSA
As many of you might be aware, an advertisement was posted in the Daily Nexus on Monday, April 14, that insinuated that the UCSB Muslim Student Association was a front for a global jihad and is founded by the Muslim Brotherhood. A few of you reading this editorial might even know me as the president of the MSA. Let me begin by assuring my fellow Gauchos that the MSA IS NOT a terrorist organization, nor does it have any connection whatsoever to al-Qaeda, Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood.
Happy Birthday
Awfully nice of thousands of fans to sing happy birthday to the Pope yesterday, especially since I doubt that he’s always had a song on his special day. Call me crazy, but I just can’t picture the Hitler Youth breaking into a rousing rendition. Nazis and happiness don’t exactly go hand in hand.
Major League Baseball Postseason Predictions: The Nexus Sports Staff Attempts to Guess How 2008 Plays Out
AL Cy Young: C.C. Sabathia
NL Cy Young: Dan Haren
World Series: Arizona over Cleveland in six
Yes, I’m such a fan of the American League that I barely pay attention to the National League, except to make sure the Dodgers and Giants are getting killed. This year, however, should be like the last in that every division in the NL has a legitimate multi-team race for the crown, making for great baseball. The National League East is going to be the most exhilarating and tightest race of them all with the Phillies, Mets and Braves – yes the Braves – battling for two spots because, let’s face it, the wild card is going to come from this dominant division.
Blast Off
Maybe Phantom Planet was just biding its time, waiting to release its fourth album, Raise the Dead, until after “The OC” finally got kicked off the air and Seth Cohen faded from pop culture ubiquity. It’s now been four years since the L.A. quartet delivered its ambitious, self-titled third release, an experimental, lyrically darker, rawer affair that was successful at garnering a bit of indie-rock cred (something of an oxymoron) if not at placating the fickle, “California”-loving 14-year-old girl crowd that had embraced The Guest and its clean, sunny, thoroughly Californian brand of pop rock. Phantom Planet, their third album, failed to deliver financially and got the band dropped from Epic.