Gauchos Offense Overpowers UC Irvine 85-62 Away From Home
Sophomore guard Kyle Boswell put up a career-high 19 points and made five three-point baskets to help the Gauchos beat UC Irvine on the road Wednesday night. Senior guard Orlando Johnson recorded a double-double with 25 points and 10 rebounds during the game. With the win, UCSB improves its record to 14-8 overall and 9-3 […]
A Guacho Survives his Quarter-Life Crisis
Many people have anxieties about their next step after college. With graduation looming around the corner, I, for one can attest to the feelings caused by my impending quarter-life crisis. According to recent UCSB graduate Miguel Jiménez, graduation isn’t the colonoscopy appointment we make it out to be. Fresh out of college, Jiménez and partner […]
New Midseason Series Prove the Sun Always Shines on TV
You may have noticed that streaming sites are being shut down. Thank God. For a while there, the Internet was killing the video star, but alas! It seems that TV is still kicking, still streaming and still dedicated to bringing rays of sunshine into our collective homes. Now is a very special time of year! […]
Pollock Theater Screens Canadian Film ‘Monsieur Lazhar’
Grief, depression and dealing with death are never easy things to come to terms with, especially when you’re young. What makes the film “Monsieur Lazhar” — one of Canada’s contenders for Best Foreign Language Oscar along with “Incendiaries” — so special is that it captures the zeitgeist of pent up anxiety in a real and […]
I.V. Stand-up is on the Rise at Javan’s
“Stand-up in its worst form is distilled ignorance and bigotry. In its best form, it’s a palatable form of philosophy,” fourth-year literature major and amateur stand-up comic William Buescher said as he took a sip from a cold beer last Monday, ironically one of the coldest nights in recent Isla Vista memory. It’s evident that […]
Is a Gay-Friendly Interpretation of the Bible Possible?
Of the many sins stridently denounced by the “divine” words of the New Testament — murder, theft, deceit, lust, envy — there is included among them a trait which is inborn and utterly insulated from free choice. The sin to which I refer is of course homosexuality, the innate sexual orientation of some of my […]
Raised by Popular Culture: Tucker and Dale Take Fight Bad Cinema
Drop everything you’re doing and see this movie right now. It’s awesome. It’s hard to describe exactly why this film is so special. For starters, it has a one-note premise. A bunch of dumb, drunk college kids mistake two creepy-looking, but well-meaning hillbillies — the eponymous; Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and Dale (Tyler Labine) — for […]
A Win at Home, and off on the Road Again
So after a nice week home and a win against Riverside on Saturday night, we’re back on the road for the next week basically. The game against Riverside didn’t go exactly as I thought it would. We came out pretty flat and basically played like shit the first half, but we managed to put together […]
Audacious Author Reveals All
His name is Tucker Max, and he is an asshole. The man whose stories are too terrible for your mother’s eyes, yet too hilarious for her not to love, has recently published his third and final book in a trilogy of tales that have caused protests, lawsuits and spawned a new generation of literature […]
Court Rules UCPD Officer Innocent
On Friday, a federal district court in San Francisco found UC Berkeley Campus Police Officer Brendan Tinney not guilty of violating a student’s civil rights during a Nov. 20, 2009 protest. Berkeley graduate student Zhivka Valiavicharska charged Tinney with the use of excessive force when baton strikes broke her pinky. Valiavicharska had placed her hand […]