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Something major is about to happen in I.V., and Mac Montgomery & the Family Band are at the forefront of it. Twenty-one year old Mac Montgomery is not local; he’s not even a student at UCSB or a...
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More than 10 years since their last collective art show, members of the UCSB Art Department Faculty exhibited selections from their oeuvres this past weekend at Uppur Bunk Collaborative Art Space in G...
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“Bunraku” is my favorite avant-garde, post-apocalyptic, kung fu, Western, noir, Socialist propaganda film I have ever seen. To put it in a word: awesome. Now, I don’t know if I’d necessarily c...
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A Thursday night at Velvet Jones in downtown Santa Barbara already has the potential to lean towards absurdity. With sinister graphic art and an unimaginably cramped dance floor (due in large part to ...
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Yes, it’s cold out. But this is not a reason to stay at home. To take a well deserved break from your studies, you should venture from your cozy apartment and see two films that will set the tone fo...
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After weeks of spotting an inconspicuously colored, human-sized vagina around campus — an image that has probably loomed in many students’ minds — the “Vagina Monologues” finally hit the sta...
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Artsweek’s Audrey Bachelder recently sat down with playwright-in-residence Lila Rose Kaplan to talk about her new play Entangled, which premeires at UCSB this week. Check back for complete coverage ...
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Many of us are familiar with the Mexican bingo-style game Lotería, whether we played it at home with our families, at day-care with our childhood friends, or with classmates to learn basic Spanish vo...
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I’ve never been inside a sewer. I’ve never been trapped in complete blackness for over a year. I’ve never had to fear for my life every second. But after seeing “In Darkness,” I feel like I ...
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A glossy checkerboard floor, notched table, elegant chairs and glittering chandeliers set the scene for the Department of Theater and Dance’s latest performance, Molière’s “Tartuffe.” Directe...
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Wow, that was a fun and/or sobering week. I’m still deciding which. You see, from Tuesday, Feb. 14 to Saturday Feb. 18, the Pollock Theater at UCSB screened five of the Oscar-nominated foreign films...
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Many people have anxieties about their next step after college. With graduation looming around the corner, I, for one can attest to the feelings caused by my impending quarter-life crisis. According t...
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You may have noticed that streaming sites are being shut down. Thank God. For a while there, the Internet was killing the video star, but alas! It seems that TV is still kicking, still streaming and s...
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Grief, depression and dealing with death are never easy things to come to terms with, especially when you’re young. What makes the film “Monsieur Lazhar” — one of Canada’s contenders for Bes...
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“Stand-up in its worst form is distilled ignorance and bigotry. In its best form, it’s a palatable form of philosophy,” fourth-year literature major and amateur stand-up comic William Buescher s...
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Everything shower every day
Has an extensive tote bag collection but never brings one to Trader Joe’s
Reusing condoms
Collecting tears to water their plants
Asking to shower together to “save water”
Air conditioning and electric blanket running simultaneously
Has gone from Temu to SHEIN for bikini purchases
Fracking
On their 10th flight out of Santa Barbara Airport this month
Owns seven Stanley cups
Wrote their environmental ethics essay with ChatGPT
Vegan contributing to Big Almond
