Gauchos Fall to USC on the Road
If the UCSB women’s basketball team could find a way to score, it would be a very dangerous team. Offensive inconsistency once again killed the Gauchos, who lost to USC 50-39 in a nonconference matchup. The loss was the third straight for UCSB, which drops to 8-12 overall. The Trojans improve to 11-9. “It’s a […]
Road Trip Up North
The following is the first Online Nexus Sports Blog, from Christian Peterson, senior forward on the UCSB men’s basketball team. This past weekend was our longest road trip of the year and, for me and many other teammates growing up in SoCal, it’s probably the least favorite for us. On the other hand, for many […]
Groupwork: A Living Breathing Monster
Many people compare visiting a museum to visiting a church. A place that houses art becomes sacred somehow. It becomes a destination for people to observe carefully constructed historical and personal expressions in quiet reverence. To an extent, the group of Master of Fine Arts students who took over Gallery 479 at UCSB these past […]
Artsweek Wants You … to Watch Foreign Films
When people think about foreign films, there seems to be a lot of derision towards them: “I don’t like subtitles,” “Dubbing sounds weird,” “Only pretentious hipsters would watch them,” etc. While there is some truth to some of that, it shouldn’t stop you from enjoying a foreign film. Everyone should give foreign films a chance. […]
UCSB’s Palladino Premieres Film at SBIFF
Each winter, downtown’s historic movie theaters play host to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This year, SBIFF’s highlighted themes include Cinesonic (films about iconic musicians), Cinema Nouveau (films from emerging French directors) and Screen Cuisine (films featuring the culinary process). Another SBIFF sidebar, Santa Barbara Filmmakers, features entries from local filmmakers. Each year, a […]
Take a Course in Laughology
Stand-up comedy is not easy. It’s one of those art forms which seems readily accessible to anyone not already embedded in that world. “I can just go up on stage and say stuff? What’s so hard about that?” However, anyone who has ever tried remaining confident on stage while reciting jokes you wrote yourself — […]
Petition Aims to Abolish Tuition in Public Universities
Last week, the state of California granted students at Oakland Unity High School and the Life Academy of Health and Bioscience permission to begin collecting signatures for their proposed ballot initiative that aims to completely eliminate tuition and fees from California public universities. The initiative intends to make attending a UC or CSU free for […]
Undercover Police Foil Murderous Plot
A Goleta resident who attempted to hire a hit man to kill a Bel Air couple and a former business partner in 2010 was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Monday. Eugene Darryl Temkin, 51, was arrested in July of 2010 after soliciting the services of an undercover LAPD officer posing as a […]
Seminar To Honor Student Activism
Political experts and veteran activists will meet for a two-day conference today and tomorrow in Corwin Pavilion to discuss the legacy of the Students for a Democratic Society’s 1962 Port Huron Statement. The conference will feature a panel and speeches with leading academics and activists involved in the 1960s political manifesto. The discussion will also […]
Gauchos Fall in Straight Sets at USC
On the road for the second match of a three game road trip, the No. 15 UCSB men’s volleyball team lost to MPSF foe USC in straight sets last night, failing once again to capture their first conference victory of the season. Falling in the first two sets, the Gauchos narrowly dropped a tightly contested […]