Artsweek

May 30, 2013

Indulge Your ‘Appetite’: Upcoming Show Features Top Undergrad Artists

By Staff Report

The UCSB Art Department will soon open its annual Undergraduate Art Exhibition. This year’s show, titled “Appetite for Construction,” boasts an impressive collection of work ranging from two-dimensional prints, pai...

May 30, 2013

WORDSTOCK Hits its Stride in Second Year

By Audrey Bachelder

Yellow felt cut-outs bearing the word “WORD” lined the grass of Little Acorn Park this past Saturday, a token of WORD Magazine’s second annual WORDSTOCK Festival. Also covering the grass were bundles of people tann...

May 23, 2013

X13 Marks the Spot

By Audrey Bachelder

At precisely 1:15 p.m. this past Sunday, hordes of happy Gauchos ditched their pre-game parties and headed to Harder Stadium for the biggest free event of the school year. Tons of graduates, Isla Vistans and SBCC kids al...

May 23, 2013

Writer Shares SF Adventures

By Jim Chang

On May 22, 2013 at 4 p.m., author Joe Riley will visit UCSB to read excerpts from his new book How Strange Is It To Be Anything At All at the Old Little Theatre at the College of Creative Studies. How Strange Is It To Be...

May 23, 2013

Getting Acquainted With the AlloSphere, MAT: How Art and Tech Collide on Campus

By Megan Fisher

With new discoveries in the scientific field happening every day, research collaborations that bring science, engineering and technology together with the arts are currently being facilitated on UCSB’s campus. This cro...

May 23, 2013

‘Gatsby’ Weighed Down by Big Baz Mistakes

By Isabel Miller-Bottome

Let’s face it: The Great Gatsby was the one book that we all actually read in high school from beginning to end — even the slackers and math and science nerds were not immune to its spell. Over the last century, F. S...

May 23, 2013

‘Reel Loud’ 2013 Promises Great Entertainment

By Corie Anderson

The 22nd Reel Loud Film Festival will take over Campbell Hall on Friday May 24. If you’re wondering what Reel Loud is, you’ve probably been living under a rock for the last two quarters, as posters and events adverti...

May 16, 2013

An Inside View of I.V.’s Live Music Tradition

By Andrew Crockett

Finally, an Isla Vista-wide event that features music coming from guitars and voices rather than a MacBook and two PAs. Don’t get me wrong, I like electronica, but nothing beats live music at an event like Chilla Vista...

May 16, 2013

MCC To Host Spoken Word Artist at Coffee Cat Downtown

By Audrey Bachelder

Hey you! Yes, you, the one who is reading the Daily Nexus Artsweek section right now. Do you have plans tonight? Oh, you don’t? Well then, in that case, you should drop by the Coffee Cat (a 10-minute trek downtown) at ...

May 9, 2013

Alpha Phunk Talks Writing, Friendship and Jazz

By Andrew Crockett, Tina Petrosian

A French drummer and an American guitarist walk into a bar — a coffee bar that is — and sit down to discuss their band, Alpha Phunk. After playing together for less than a year, the group has clinched a spot on the E...

May 9, 2013

Drag Gets Serious: A Thrilling Show at Campbell

By Megan Fisher

This past Thursday evening, Campbell Hall experienced a complete makeover as it welcomed stars Willam Belli and Detox from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to host a professional drag show for UCSB’s Pride Week, put on by UC...

May 2, 2013

PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE

By Corie Anderson, Audrey Bachelder

PART I The first part of the final show for UCSB’s Honors Art Program, “People Who Need People” recently finished its run in Gallery 479. The exhibition lasted from April 1 through 5 and featured work by Melissa Ch...

May 2, 2013

Fledgling Matador Music Festival Disappoints

By Lalita Stone

Last Saturday, Collective Efforts and Disco Donnie Presents put on Santa Barbara’s very first Electronic Dance Music and hip-hop music festival at the Earl Warren Show Grounds. With the recent rise of EDM, hip-hop and ...

May 2, 2013

Sedaris Uplifts With Every Cringe-Worthy Detail

By Isabel Miller-Bottome

Beloved essayist and radio contributor David Sedaris returned to the stage of the old Arlington Theater in downtown Santa Barbara Tuesday evening to delight a full house with readings from his newest book, Let’s Explor...

April 24, 2013

Folk Band The Dunwells To Give Free Show

By Isabel Miller-Bottome

The up-and-coming British folk-rock band The Dunwells are coming to UCSB this Friday, April 26, to play a free concert in Storke Plaza at noon. This is just one stop on their U.S. tour, which began at the SXSW festival i...

April 24, 2013

Coachella 2013: Two Takes on Two Weekends

By Audrey Bachelder, Megan Fisher

Weekend 1: A Love Letter From a First-Time Festivalgoer Audrey Bachelder, Assistant Artsweek Editor There’s a certain kind of magic that surrounds the festival called Coachella. It’s the magic of unadul...