Emily Hunt

October 20, 2011

Muddy Waters Shakes Up Noche de los Muertos

By Emily Hunt

As eager students (attending UCSB or not) gear up for Santa Barbara Halloween by purchasing fake facial hair and dreaming of various ways to sex up even the most ordinary of Halloween costumes, the Muddy Waters’ downto...

October 13, 2011

Culinary Art Hits the California Avocado Festival

By Emily Hunt

I studied my opponents carefully and approached the table: They knew me and they knew what I had come for. They had the product and they had the power to manipulate me according to whatever sick whims passed through thei...

September 15, 2011

The Joy Formidable Bring the Spunk to SoHo

By Emily Hunt

When The Joy Formidable steps on the stage, audiences may have a few questions. Is this metal or pop? Are bassist Rhydian Dafydd and drummer Matt Thomas aloof or merely professional? Is front woman Ritzy Bryan eyeing the...

September 15, 2011

UCSB Library Receives Thoreau Collection

By Emily Hunt

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Davidson Library’s Thoreau Edition a grant of $245,000 last month, giving UCSB a 28-volume trove of writings from the famed author and philosopher Henry David Thore...

May 19, 2011

‘RENT’: Real, Raw Student Entertainment

By Emily Hunt

Student-organized Shrunken Head Productions filled the Old Little Theatre with the raw sounds of “RENT,” the rock opera that speaks to the grittiness of modern life.

May 12, 2011

‘Water for Elephants’: Inviting but Shallow

By Emily Hunt

Director Francis Lawrence’s latest release, Water for Elephants, views much like a circus performance: a pleasure to watch despite its inherently flawed execution.

May 5, 2011

UC Radio Network Conference After-show at Biko

By Emily Hunt

  UCSB hosted the biannual UC Radio Network Conference last Saturday, which entailed a series of events, speeches, workshops and one hell of an after-show. Students and radio workers from all UCs came to the confere...

April 28, 2011

The Growlers Make Velvet Jones Sweat

By Emily Hunt

One of the notoriously unfriendly Velvet Jones staff members led me to a large, potentially-creepy-but-mostly-psychedelic school bus last Friday where — I was informed — I could find the Costa Mesa-based rock group, ...

April 7, 2011

Uh Huh Her Styles Up Velvet Jones

By Emily Hunt

On Saturday, April 2, Uh Huh Her hit the dimly-lit, masculine stage of Velvet Jones with a wave of femininity.

March 3, 2011

Benefit Starts Fine, Turns Tragic

By Emily Hunt

On Saturday night, UCSB group Kapatirang Pilipino’s benefit talent showcase went from sublime to tragically ridiculous.

February 18, 2011

Taboo Subject On Hand in ‘Vagina Monologues’

By Emily Hunt

UCSB students will celebrate the global V-Day Movement (‘V’ for Victory, Valentine and Vagina) today and tomorrow with the Women’s Ensemble Theater Troupe’s 13th annual production of “The Vagina Monologu...

February 17, 2011

EasyLove Turns Two

By Emily Hunt

On Friday night, roughly 500 Isla Vista resident] (and a cohort of Swedish exchange students for whose presence I have little explanation) crammed themselves into a Del Playa driveway in commemoration of EasyLove Records...

February 10, 2011

Classic Opera “Carmen” Wows at Closing Night of Film Festival

By Emily Hunt

On Sunday, Feb. 6, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival said its closing goodbye to a small but zealous afternoon crowd.

February 3, 2011

Chris Nolan: SBIFF’s Modern Master

By Emily Hunt

High school girls and enthusiastic film buffs alike staked out near the Arlington Theater on Sunday night, two and a half hours before Leonardo DiCaprio would present “Inception” director Christopher Nolan his Santa ...

January 27, 2011

Ra Ra Riot Take SOhO

By Emily Hunt

Ra Ra Riot hit SOhO’s stage on Jan. 19 with professional poppy splendor, and the line between profound dork-dom and complete bad-assery has never been so blurred.

January 26, 2011

Green Group Commends SB’s Sustainability

By Emily Hunt

The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design granted UCSB’s Marine Science Research Building with a Gold certification in its “Existing Building” category last week.