Two years ago on Holocaust Remembrance Day, pro- Palestinian demonstrators interrupted 30 Jewish SFSU students from their Mourner’s Kaddish (Jewish prayer for the dead). The mourners were physically...
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Local government councils will consider a scope of issues today during their weekly meetings. No meetings were held last week.
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President Obama's State of the Union address transcript and video for 2011...
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We eat. We shop. We party. We groom. We consume. We also vote — Take five minutes to answer the next 30 questions. You decide who is the "Best of UCSB" for 2011!
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Whoever invented the breakfast burrito is my hero. And as far as good breakfast burritos go, La Cantina is the place to find one. Flavorful eggs, delicious potatoes, melting cheese, rice, fresh salsaâ...
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For those who are still going to be in the area next year, the time has come to consider housing options! Talk about it here!
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When the world saw footage of Philippe Petit’s daredevil tightrope jaunt between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, he became the most well-known high wire artist in history. This Sa...
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Representatives from over 80 schools will be in the Arbor today for Graduate and Professional School Day. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., graduate program admissions officers from a wide variety of academic f...
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Former city council member Helene Schneider was the big winner in Tuesday’s election and will serve as Santa Barbara’s newest mayor. The final ballots of the city-wide election were tallied by 1:3...
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Today at noon, the University Art Museum will premiere four highly anticipated exhibitions ranging from a display of shocking postmortem photographs to an abstract collection of objects. One exhibitio...
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The Campaign for UC Santa Barbara — a fundraising effort started by the campus in 2000 to attract donations — has brought in a total of $548 million dollars since its inception. According to a pre...
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Updates on the substantial fire burning in Montecito and Santa Barbara.
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The Santa Barbara Police Dept. has now released the name of the UCSB student and his two family members who were struck by a car this past weekend while crossing a downtown intersection. Janone Ashken...
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A possible kidnapping incident occurred Sunday night, Nov. 16, on the 7000 block of Marketplace Drive next to the Camino Real Marketplace.
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Senior midfielder Memo Arzate recorded four assists last week to claim a share of the Big West Conference career assists record with 31. For his efforts, Arzate earned Big West Player of the Week and ...
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Forgetting to take off the ratty AF1’s at the potluck (most Asian households don’t take kindly to shoes in the house!)
Wearing your only red t-shirt to every final (Red is a lucky color in many cultures, especially Chinese cultures)
Putting spiders in your friend’s wedding dress for good luck (Has its origins in old english folklore, and represents abundance for the couple)
Accidentally summoned a ghost by leaving their chopsticks straight up (A superstition that has Chinese origins because the chopsticks are reminiscent of funeral incense)
Didn’t like your friends significant other so they gifted them an umbrella (The word for umbrella ‘san’ sounds like the word for divorce in Chinese)
Believing in horoscopes (The modern western zodiac actually came from Babylonian astrology)
Walked backwards in Portugal to live out the Faust fantasy (In Portugal, walking backwards allows the devil to know exactly where you are)
Stole a raven from the tower of london as reparations (According to UK superstition, if there aren’t 6 ravens in the tower, the kingdom will fall)
Breaks a knuckle knocking on wood for good scores on finals (Knocking on wood may have originated from the Celts and their love for tree spirits)
Drunkenly rearranging their apartment for the feng shui at 3 AM (A Chinese cultural practice that harmonizes a person with the energies of the environment around them)
Left out their middle name on their taxes because the Fae run the IRS (Giving the Fae your full name gives them power over you, and the IRS has too much)
Hit by a car but the license plate had an angel number (Beyond just blowing up on TikTok, angel numbers were invented by... Pythagoras)
