Clint Eastwood Has Still Got It, Baby
You almost begin to feel like cattle as a journalist covering red carpet events at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. You’re sent through the chute with your fellow journalists and paparazzi and then made to stand at your marked spot while everyone leans over the railing and looks to see if that’s Clint Eastwood. Thankfully, however, they spare you from being shot in the forehead with an air gun, getting hung upside down and then being cut into steaks.
Hippie Idealism Ignores Reality
Chris Par’s “Try Out Green Utopia” (Daily Nexus, Feb. 2) is a prime example of the drivel that infests our campus like a stubborn mold. I will only briefly address this article for fear of dignifying it with too elaborate a response (and also because the Nexus limits Opinion responses to 300 words). Fortunately, the […]
Students Gut DP Building
When residents of 6560 Del Playa Drive learned their building was going to be torn down, they took matters into their own hands and demolished it themselves, leaving little more than a pile of rebar and drywall in the gutted structure.
On the Sketchy Road to CSUF
Hitting the road for the last time this season, the UCSB men’s basketball team starts off a two-game road trip against Cal State Fullerton tonight.
Rourke Keeps It Real While Accepting the Riviera Award
After a long wait by the Arlington Theatre red carpet last Saturday, I finally stood face-to-face with actor Mickey Rourke, who is currently enjoying a career comeback this year with his Oscar-nominated performance in “The Wrestler.” He already won a Golden Globe for the role, and he was in town this past Saturday to receive […]
Greka Neglects Duty; State Plugs Old Wells
The California Department of Conservation has completed a nine-year effort to remediate and permanently seal 80 oil wells left abandoned by Greka Energy Co., State Assemblymember Pedro Nava announced yesterday.
Scurry SB in a Sweet Surrey
Just imagine it: You’re coasting down a hill, wind in your hair, sunset over you shoulder as you whiz down the road with five of your friends. No, it’s not the pitch for a cheesy Super Bowl ad (I’ve seen better, and frankly I was a little disappointed this year), but rather a little excursion you can have along the waterfront in Santa Barbara.
Spikers to Entertain #15 Tritons, #7 49ers
Fresh off their first win in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation against BYU last Friday, the UCSB men’s volleyball team is set to resume and wrap up its four-game homestand, first taking on #15 UC San Diego (3-5 overall, 1-4 in the MPSF) before facing off against #7 Long Beach State (4-4 overall, 3-2 in the MPSF).
Down and Out in L.A.
Rating: ***
Connoisseurs To Convene
Food aficionados will find a smorgasbord of events to sample during this week’s Food Sustainability and Food Security: A UCSB Conference.