Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

April 13, 2006

Mudhoney | Under a Billion Suns | Sub Pop

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Political awareness is ultimately frightening. Most of us - or at least most people who would buy a Mudhoney album - are apprehensively aware of the social/political mess that currently envelopes the United States.

October 6, 2005

Serenity | To Infinity and Beyond

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Joss Whedon has a message in "Serenity," the big-screen sequel to his cult-hit television show "Firefly": Luke Skywalker is a sniveling twit. Writer/director Whedon, best known for creating the first fully functional hyb...

November 8, 2002

What the Funk?

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Though many of you may be accustomed to thinking of Clinton as a technicolor-dreadlocked, extravagant '70s emcee who manages to incorporate the word "funk" into every sentence, the truth is slightly different - but only ...

November 7, 2002

Power Outage Affects KCSB Fund Raising

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

UCSB radio station KCSB-FM 91.9 experienced almost two hours of dead air on Wednesday night after a power failure crippled Storke Communications Building and 75 percent of the rest of campus.

October 30, 2002

Glory Be, the Funk’s on Artsweek

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

What Would Bootsy Do? And more importantly, why should you want to know? When Parliament Funkadelic comes to the Thunderdome on Sunday (tickets are $18 for students, available at the A.S. Ticket Office), there will be on...

October 24, 2002

All Aboard the Juice Caboose

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Transplant cross-Californian smartasses into a historical celebration of small-town history, and see if they come out earnest and giddy. That's not a rhetorical challenge. They very well may.

October 8, 2002

In the Still of the Night

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

It really is a form of tranquility when totally new people can be relied on to behave in exactly the same ways, be duped in exactly the same ways and disappear in exactly the same ways.

September 26, 2002

Fatkid Reclining: Spread a Little Anguish to the World, One Pathetic Loser at a Time

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Hi. My name is Alex Benowitz-Fredericks, and I am mean to freshmen. The basic excuse here is one of basic pecking-order cruelty. But that's just an excuse.

September 26, 2002

A Cozy Night of Wrestling Fright in the Thunderdome

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

The announcer comes on and proclaims that tonight's SmackDown! event is sponsored by the JVC Tower of Power - and not just the horn section. The crowd boos.

September 20, 2002

WWE: Return of the King: Rey Mysterio Reigns as Lord of the Ring

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Mysterio brings his unique style to the UCSB Events Center on Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Smackdown! Tour of Defiance.

September 20, 2002

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

There seem to be three broad categories of signs: the vitally important, the theoretically useful and the utterly useless.

August 28, 2002

Drink Your Way to a Higher Education in the UCSB Residence Halls

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Now, we don't know about you, but here at the Nexus we prefer our fish kippered, so here's the official Life in the Dorms Drinking Game.

May 15, 2002

Sports Column: Baseball Nerds Forget the Tube and Log On

By Alex Benowitz-Fredricks

Damn the decadent bastards, with their caviar and Cristal and MLB Extra Innings digital cable package. What can the common man do? Fear not, proletariat. We are on a college campus. We have computer labs. We have access ...

May 8, 2002