Mudhoney | Under a Billion Suns | Sub Pop

April 13, 2006 by

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 ...
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Serenity | To Infinity and Beyond

October 6, 2005 by

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 ...
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What the Funk?

November 8, 2002 by

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 d...
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Power Outage Affects KCSB Fund Raising

November 7, 2002 by

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.
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Glory Be, the Funk’s on Artsweek

October 30, 2002 by

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 Offic...
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All Aboard the Juice Caboose

October 24, 2002 by

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.
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In the Still of the Night

October 8, 2002 by

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

September 26, 2002 by

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.
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A Cozy Night of Wrestling Fright in the Thunderdome

September 26, 2002 by

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

September 20, 2002 by

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.
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

September 20, 2002 by

There seem to be three broad categories of signs: the vitally important, the theoretically useful and the utterly useless.
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Drink Your Way to a Higher Education in the UCSB Residence Halls

August 28, 2002 by

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.
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Sports Column: Baseball Nerds Forget the Tube and Log On

May 15, 2002 by

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 l...
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Sports Column: It’s Getting Ugly: Baseball’s Seven Deadly Sins

May 8, 2002 by

Name me one world-class baseball player who is undeniably hot, and I'll show you a whiny little Red with a famous dad and no knee ligaments.
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Sports Column: Bonds & Co.: Bums, Scum, but Home Runs

April 24, 2002 by

The wonder of being a die-hard baseball fan is the capacity we all seem to have for investing a lot of emotion in the deliciously trivial world.
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