Relax With Renter’s Insurance
We thought we’d share some tips about how to protect your stuff, or at least get compensation when it is stolen or damaged, whether due to theft, rain, fire or another unexpected disaster.
Beach Battle Looms for SB
The #9 UCSB men’s water polo team will travel down to Long Beach State to play the #8 49ers this weekend for their first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Conference game of the season. Santa Barbara (9-7 overall) is coming off two disappointing weekends in a row, having gone 1-4 in their last five contests, with three of the four losses being decided by two goals or less. And if that was not enough motivation for the Gauchos, one of those losses was against Long Beach (6-8 overall, 0-3 in conference).
“Gunmetal” Brings Noir to Sunny SB
Picture a bar by an airport, just a little hole in the wall that people stop into when they’re running away. It’s the kind of place that “smells like stale cigarette smoke and shattered dreams.” The only thing anyone drinks there is bourbon or gin, and the Piano Man plays the blues.
Locals Contemplate More Weed Statutes
The Santa Barbara City Council considered new regulations for local medical marijuana dispensaries this week.
Twins Achieve Sainthood ****
Canadian twins Tegan and Sara have the world at their fingertips: After winning a local music contest at the age of 17, they landed a spot on a “Grey’s Anatomy” soundtrack, gained a devoted following of fans and even won the respect of critics along the way.
Council Overturns Board Rejection
The Associated Students Legislative Council discussed at length the option of overruling a Finance Board allocation at last night’s meeting.
It’s a Wild, “Wild” World Out There *****
“Where the Wild Things Are” has achieved a rare quadruple-media self-referential storm that has taken the beloved children’s book from its place at the bottom of boxes in attics and elevated it to a multimedia cultural force to be reckoned with. Not bad for a book that took two years to be recognized for its popularity, a book that consists of a grand total of 10 sentences that leave as much to the imagination as they suggest] Thus far this year, the original picture book has been adapted into a novel, a documentary, a movie and a soundtrack, all of which encapsulate the original work in their own related but distinct ways.
The “Paranormal” Phenomenon ****
It only took one million online demands for the independently produced “Paranormal Activity” to be distributed to theaters nationwide, but it has finally arrived. And boy was it worth it.
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: [REC]
1968’s “Rosemary’s Baby” featured a shot of a woman sitting in a bedroom on the phone with her face blocked by the edge of the doorway. Legend has it that at the first screening, nearly the entire audience leaned forward and to the right, trying to see around the corner. Forty years later, this type of visual gimmickry has become a subgenre unto itself.
The University Art Museum Takes a “Holiday”
The University Art Museum opened its doors to four new exhibitions last Wednesday, all of which will be showing through Jan. 31, 2010. The distinct and diverse exhibitions deal with enticing themes, all confronting larger discourses in art in general, that on a more microcosmic level are sure to automatically incite interest in anyone, art lover or not.