Horny Gaucho Gets Ready to Rail

So now that I’m finally done with my first round of midterms, I’m going to do what any sensible person would do after getting up way too early, staying up far too late and being under an inordinate amount of stress: get a little R&R.

Taylor Swift Drops Her Latest Album

Country songstress Taylor Swift reports on the past two years of her life on her third studio album, Speak Now.

John Lithgow Tells His Favorite Stories

Actor John Lithgow brought his critically acclaimed show, “Stories by Heart,” to the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara last Monday night as part of this year’s Arts & Lectures series.

Professor Burns Big Oil Behavior

William Freudenburg, Dehlsen professor of environmental studies at UCSB, just published a new book criticizing the BP oil spill and subsequent interpretation of national energy and oil policies.

Rocky Horror: Just As Horrible as Ever

When a film has been in theaters for over three decades, you would expect that film to be either culturally significant, so bad that it’s just that fun to watch or the best damn movie of all time.

New Release: Paranormal Activity 2

Like “The Blair Witch Project” ten years before it, Paranormal Activity, a low-budget, independent horror film marketed under the guise of a documentary project, achieved the near-impossible last year by becoming an international box office sensation.

Party Creepy: 5 Scary Dubstep Tracks

It’s old news to say that dubstep is big in I.V. Unfortunately I don’t hear a whole lot of variety in what I hear out there in the streets.

Pain, Pleather and Pleasure: Need We Say More?

Here’s the thing: I like to be spanked. Preferably to the point of intense pain.

Barbara Boxer Deserves Senate Seat Over Fiorina

Young people are undecided and uninformed about the election next week, according to recent polls. Students also have a reputation for being aloof about elections, especially midterm elections.

Scientists Use Lasers To Detect, Control Diamond Quantum States

The physicists and researchers of UCSB’s Awschalom Group are one step closer to harnessing the potential of quantum computers, according to a paper published on Oct. 14, 2010 in the online version of Science. UCSB physics and electrical and computer engineering professor David Awschalom and graduate student Bob Buckley have led research into using thin […]