Sophia Kercher

May 24, 2007

Loosen Up with Some Local Cultural Hotspots

By Sophia Kercher

With an overloaded schedule of Spring Quarter nightlife events and finals approaching closer and closer, the average student may be feeling like they might burn out before summer even begins.

April 19, 2007

In So Many Words

By Sophia Kercher

On April 15, the illustrious, best-selling author Amy Tan informed the audience at UCSB's Campbell Hall that she was in love.

April 12, 2007

A Tit Bit Nipply

By Sophia Kercher

"Nipples to the Wind," playing at the Lobero Theatre, is at times like going to a family reunion: You want to look away as your great aunt blows her nose and then looks at the remnants of mucus left behind on the tissue,...

April 5, 2007

Back To The Future

By Sophia Kercher

A robot lurching forward reminds me to "Please put on your glasses," but they are already on.

March 8, 2007

Nuns Having Fun

By Sophia Kercher

Arms poised in a port de bras, Sister Mary Leo, the novice nun, glides across the stage with the use of pink Heelys, the footwear of a common ten-year-old hipster that allows one to roll across a room effortlessly.

March 1, 2007

Rhythm & Rhymes

By Sophia Kercher

Black History Month went out with a slang Tuesday, Feb. 27 with Universes' Universe's "Slanguage," presented by Arts & Lectures.

February 15, 2007

Shock and Awe

By Sophia Kercher

A mutilated baby's leg dangles from the hand of a doctor who is set up to measure the fragment of the tiny body in his hand after the abortion he just performed.

February 8, 2007

Student Filmmakers Strut Their Stuff at SBIFF

By Sophia Kercher

Despite the clouds of stardust surrounding Hollywood celebrities such as Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Aniston and Will Smith, this year's Santa Barbara International Film Festival still had room to allow some of UCSB's risi...

January 25, 2007

Insert Hoeing Pun Here

By Sophia Kercher

I am standing at UCSB's 2007 Word Farm watching Harrison Reiner say, "I'm totally star struck. And I thought I couldn't get star struck anymore, I am a big fan of your work, big fan," to a flaming-haired woman. Reiner, a...

January 25, 2007

Still Life With Mic

By Sophia Kercher

"I've just come out of the closet," Todd Reynolds informs the audience. Utilizing the violin as his main tool, this illustrious artist has been committed to the genre bending of music for the last six years since he "cam...

August 30, 2006

Are You Afraid of The Dark?

By Sophia Kercher

The Isla Vista music scene is like a werewolf: It only comes out at night and when it does it is prepared to lose all control.

June 28, 2006

Go Postal

By Sophia Kercher

The Pink Mailbox, a residence and music space for the Isla Vista community, is all wrapped up in cool, elusive appeal. This quietly evolving venue is keeping the independent music scene aflame in Santa Barbara, but it re...

June 1, 2006

Painting The Town

By Sophia Kercher

Set against the gorgeous Santa Barbara sunshine and the picturesque charm of the Old Mission, the 20th anniversary of the I Madonnari Street Painting Festival this weekend was a treat.

May 18, 2006

Piano Man

By Sophia Kercher

In a world where one's middle-class neighbors get shot at their front door, where citizens are afraid to venture across town after dark and where the fear of bombings is neverending, it is a novelty if foreigners are not...

May 11, 2006

Turn The Beat Around

By Sophia Kercher

It is a secret society of passion, pulsating music and dance - salsa dance, to be exact. The members of the UCSB Salsa Club do not have brands on their inner thighs, they do not participate in animal sacrifices and they ...