Artsweek

“Merchants of Doubt”: A Discussion on Effective Science Communication

Last Wednesday, the Sustainable Science Communication Conference kicked off its event with a screening of “Merchants of Doubt” in UCSB’s Pollock Theater. Featuring approaches from several academ...
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What is Water: A Review and Discussion of “Chinatown” (1974)

On Wednesday, May 6, the Carsey-Wolf Center kicked off its new series, Inside Perspectives: Neo-Noir and the Contemporary City, with a 1974 favorite,  “Chinatown.” Directed by Roman Polanski and ...
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Robert T. Johnson Senior Recital

Thursday night, I walked into Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall to see Robert T. Johnson’s senior composition recital. When I was handed bubble wrap and a program with “RECESS” instead of “intermissi...
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‘Bloody Poetry:’ Punk, Poetry and Eccentricity

Not exactly the headline you were expecting, was it?  And we weren’t either; “Blood Poetry” takes an unexpected angle and turns its characters into anachronisms: Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Ge...
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Extravaganza 2015

AS Program Board Curates Next Installation in Annual UCSB Festival
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‘Mad Max’: Burning Man meets the Blues Brothers in Fury Road

Seriously. Holy motherfreakin’ crap. The thing about car chases is that they’re a common staple of action movies and it’s very difficult to make them seem fresh and new. George Miller’s fourth...
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Get Hyphy with E-40: UCSB Gets a Taste of Yay Area

Come this upcoming Fall Quarter of 2015, UCSB’s College of Letter and Sciences will introduce a new comparative literature course that will focus on the social and scientific implication of the lang...
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The Catalyst Presents I.V. Art Fest

Isla Vista has made it her spring resolution to ensure that each and every end-of-school-year moment is insanely fun. For students and Isla Vista residents, spring is guaranteed to make the chase for ...
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Azeem Ward Dazzles UCSB and International Fanbase

This afternoon, outside of Karl Geiringer Hall, a line of Azeem Ward fans snaked through the music building for the esteemed flautist’s senior recital. The hall overflowed, despite attendance being ...
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UCSB’s Undergraduate Directors Present Dark and Comedic One Acts

After seeing the undergraduate-directed One Acts of this spring quarter, you will never be able to un-hear the woeful tuba rendition of “Hot Cross Buns” played by Madison Scarbrough, a junior in t...
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Queer People of Color Conferences Kicks Off With First Friday Event

Queer People of Color Conference hosted a fun, relaxed First Friday this week, which also served as the conference kick-off ceremony. A sizable crowd attended for performances by Radio Xicana, Kay Ula...
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Edgar Zendejas’s Common Ground Premieres at the Granada

  Last Saturday, the combined efforts of State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Dance Theater and Eisenhower Dance culminated at the Granada Theatre to create beautiful performance, Common Ground. Ea...
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Live at the Batcave: Pookie

Pookie. The word means “vagina” in Tagalog and is slang for a heroin pipe. In Isla Vista, it’s the name of a loud garage band that refuses to describe their genre, piping that anyone who asks ...
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Demi Anter: A Not-So-Starving Artist

  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 blu...
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Waka Flocka Flame Declares Presidential Candidacy

Well, the tragic news is out, people are trashing their campaign signs, putting the caps back on their spray paint cans and undreading their hair: Waka Flocka Flame is only 28 years of age and has mul...
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