Nadine Bedwan

December 7, 2014

My Duty to Alert You About ‘A Duty to Betray’

By Nadine Bedwan

Kelly Moreno knows your brain. Prior to penning his first novel, a revenge tale entitled A Duty to Betray, Moreno led a long career in the field of psychology as a professor at both UCSB and Cal Poly SLO, amongst other u...

December 7, 2014

American Horror Story Producer and UCSB Alumni Comes to Pollock

By Nadine Bedwan

Flipping through television channels often yields the same monotonous results of sitcom after sitcom, recycling the same jokes between different characters and settings. On Oct. 5, 2011, the American public was reintrodu...

November 27, 2014

‘No Reason’ to Put Down Giraffage’s New EP

By Nadine Bedwan

Touring with the likes of Porter Robinson, Phantogram and XXYYXX, San Francisco-based producer, Giraffage, has made quite a name for himself in the electronic music sphere over the years. He first gained widespread ackno...

November 14, 2014

A Night Out at the OUTrageous! Film Festival

By Nadine Bedwan

A rambunctious crowd gathered around the theater door in UCSB’s Multicultural Center on Thursday, Nov. 6. It was the first film screening of the year put on by Santa Barbara’s own LGBTQ film festival, OUTrageous! Luc...

November 12, 2014

The Blue Boy on Our Minds: Mac DeMarco Coming to the Hub

By Nadine Bedwan

Mac DeMarco is the shit. That may seem like an obnoxiously, overconfident statement but it’s not really an easy task to describe someone who feels like he could be an old childhood friend. A beloved rockstar and...

November 2, 2014

Giraffage, Thomas Jack and Pineapples Brought Together at The Cool Off

By Nadine Bedwan

I entered the outdoor space behind EOS lounge in downtown Santa Barbara through a narrow entrance in the side and found a tropical playground. Organized by RedEye Presents, The Cool Off — featuring Hotel Garuda, Giraff...

October 31, 2014

Rock in Paradise: Five Reasons We’re Really Gonna Miss Crystal Castles

By Nadine Bedwan

“I am leaving Crystal Castles.” Band member Alice Glass tweeted this on the morning of Oct. 8, which was all it took to send nearly all of Twitter into hysterics. In the vague tweets that followed, she talked about c...

October 25, 2014

Audience Hungers for More Hall & Oates at the Santa Barbara Bowl

By Nadine Bedwan

I arrived at the Santa Barbara Bowl as people were trickling into their seats, just in time to catch the opener. His name was Mutlu, and he set the tone for the night with soulful love songs accompanied by rhythmic guita...

October 22, 2014

Modern Crowd vs. XXYYXX: Marcel Everett’s Show in Santa Ana Met Mixed Reactions

By Nadine Bedwan

After years of waiting and ample missed opportunities, I finally caught a live performance of the young prodigal DJ who goes by XXYYXX (real name, Marcel Everett) last Thursday, Oct. 16 at The Observatory in Santa Ana. E...