Mackenzie Hart

February 8, 2016

Sam Crane Live at the Batcave

By Mackenzie Hart

Aside from the occasional hungover student biking to the overloaded library or a bird cawing overhead, it’s quiet on campus on Sundays. Life—the buzz of students chatting with friends or bikers peddling to class—is...

November 26, 2015

Arts & Lectures Brings Kronos Quartet to Campbell

By Mackenzie Hart

Seven p.m. Thursday night, the 19th of November, Campbell Hall. It was dark and cold outside of the venue, but inside a crowd of 800 people buzzed. After one look around the hall with its plush velvet seats and nifty fol...

October 23, 2015

Rocktober In the Hub

By Mackenzie Hart

The good old Hub: It’s the origin of the pungent smell of freshly cooked orange chicken when you walk by the UCen. It’s where you may or may not be willing to get in a fist fight with a fellow Gaucho over a s...

October 21, 2015

Goldenvoice To Bring Sufjan Stevens to the Arlington

By Mackenzie Hart

On Oct. 24 The Arlington Theatre in Downtown Santa Barbara will be welcoming Sufjan Stevens to its illustrious stage. With its plush, red velvet seats and elaborate décor transporting you to the nighttime plaza of a Spa...

May 27, 2015

Cambodian Rock n’ Roll

By Mackenzie Hart

"Don't Think I've Forgotten" tells the story of rockers fighting to be heard amidst revolution

May 7, 2015

Demi Anter: A Not-So-Starving Artist

By Mackenzie Hart

At 10 after three, a girl wearing a flowing white blouse and silver sunglasses made her appearance at a table in front of the Coffee Collab. Her reddish hair framed her face perfectly, with blunt bangs hanging abo...

April 9, 2015

Margo Rey’s Organica Style Brings a Little Something for Everyone

By Mackenzie Hart

In an interview last fall with the Daily Nexus, singer-songwriter Margo Rey said, “I feel now that every performance is this living organism, and the audience has a big part of what this performance is going to evolve ...

February 18, 2015

The Nile Project Fosters Cultural Community

By Mackenzie Hart

The Nile Basin, holding 11 countries that inhabit the land bordering the Nile River, is in trouble. Climate change has led to a dwindling Nile water supply, pitting the people of the neighboring countries against each ot...

January 8, 2015

Best of 2014: Film

By Alex Wehrung, Mackenzie Hart, Erika Lee

Artsweek Staff Shares the Movies that We’d Re-watch “Gone Girl” Alex Wehrung, Staff Writer David Fincher and Gillian Flynn adapted Flynn’s novel to the big screen to chillingly effective results. Port...

December 14, 2014

UCSB A Capella Group InterVals Hosts “Interstellar” Show

By Mackenzie Hart

On Dec. 5, the tiny lecture hall that is Music 1145 was filled with harmonious voices, rhythmic clapping and about three or so aluminum foil hats. If those factors don’t seem to add up, then let it be known — this wa...

December 13, 2014

Brothas from Otha Mothas: Breaking Hearts, but Not Ears

By Mackenzie Hart

In 2011, “The Sing-Off” introduced us to Pentatonix. In 2012, “Pitch Perfect” gave us the Barden Bellas. But in 2003, before a cappella broke through to the forefront of the music scene, two students named D.J. a...

November 6, 2014

Exclusive Interview with Margo Rey: Singer Songwriter Shares Life Lessons

By Mackenzie Hart

“According to my mother, I sang as an infant,” Margo Rey, a singer-songwriter reigning from Arlington, Texas, revealed to me when our interview began. “My very first live performance was when I was four years old. ...

November 4, 2014

Young the Giant Plays Thunderdome in Diapers for Halloween Show

By Mackenzie Hart

It was a dark and rainy night. The first dark and rainy night in many, many months, actually. And on this dark and rainy night of all nights, Young the Giant came to perform at the Thunderdome. My pilgrimage to the “TH...

October 30, 2014

Netflix Horror Films: The Horrifically Bad

By Mackenzie Hart

Picture your upcoming Halloween night. What do you envision yourself doing? Are you dressing up in that “sultry spirit” costume (who knew being a ghost could be so revealing?) and lurking amongst your drunken peers i...