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May 18, 2015

The Catalyst Presents I.V. Art Fest

By Ryan Mandell

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 pure aesthetic and f...

May 16, 2015

Azeem Ward Dazzles UCSB and International Fanbase

By Sammy Gerraty

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 only a fraction of t...

May 13, 2015

UCSB’s Undergraduate Directors Present Dark and Comedic One Acts

By Sammy Gerraty

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 the Bachelor of Fine ...

May 13, 2015

Queer People of Color Conferences Kicks Off With First Friday Event

By Devon McNaughton

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 Ulanday Barrett, J Mase...

May 13, 2015

Edgar Zendejas’s Common Ground Premieres at the Granada

By Sammy Gerraty

  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. Each company first per...

May 7, 2015

Live at the Batcave: Pookie

By Audrey Bachelder

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 a musician what thei...

May 7, 2015

Demi Anter: A Not-So-Starving Artist

By Mackenzie Hart

  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 blunt bangs hanging abo...

May 7, 2015

Waka Flocka Flame Declares Presidential Candidacy

By Ryan Mandell

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 multiple felonies to hi...

May 7, 2015

“Age of Ultron” Gives Us What We Expected And Not Much Else

By Alex Wehrung

Like the Hulk, I feel I have two sides: one that wants to say how fun “Avengers: Age of Ultron” was and recommend that everyone see it. The other half thinks, “CRITIC SMASH!”  As much as I’d love to make that ...

May 6, 2015

Extravaganza Music Festival Lineup 2015

By Artsweek Editor

The 2015 Extravaganza Music Festival lineup was announced earlier today. Details below: Miguel: Madeon: Joey Badass: AlunaGeorge: Bad Rabbits:  

April 30, 2015

People Under the Stairs: Vibe-Hop Super Heroes Tackle SOhO Thursday

By Artsweek Editor

Welcome to inner-city Los Angeles, Pacific-side capital of gods of rhyme and denizens of beat. It’s sometime mid-’90s (hazy times, ya dig?) and Jesuit Prep schoolboy Christian Portugal and Hamilton Highschooler Micha...

April 30, 2015

It’s Better When They’re Together: Kim and Jack Johnson Share UCSB Stories

By Audrey Bachelder

In September 1993, one week into UC Santa Barbara’s Fall Quarter, Jack Johnson was sitting with his new friend from Black Studies 6 Eric Cardenas at Ortega Dining Commons. A momma’s boy his whole life, Johnson spent ...

April 30, 2015

JMSN Strikes a Chord at Blind Tiger: Shaggy R&B Vocalist Wins Audience with Unexpected Relatibility

By Alex Bocknek

A dull red spotlight illuminating the Blind Tiger stage served as the sole catalyst in transforming the skinny Detroit native, Chris Berishaj, into the torn-soul R&B singer, JMSN. Berishaj sported basketball shorts, ...

April 30, 2015

An Evening with Anna Halprin

By Artsweek Editor

On Monday, April 27, Campbell Hall filled with students to see the movie “Breath Made Visible.” The 82-minute film covered the career of modern dancer Anna Halprin and showed how dance can be applied to healing. Halp...

April 28, 2015

French-Chilean Rapper Ana Tijoux Challenges the Oppressor at the Hub

By Nisa Smith

A noisy line formed outside of The Hub Friday night, April 24, consisting of people eager to see French-Chilean musician Ana Tijoux. As remixes to Amerie’s hit “1 Thing” and Erykah Badu’s “On and On” played i...

April 28, 2015

Harvard Professor Peter Galison Introduces the Evolving Notions of Objectivity

By Kelsey Tang

Do truth and objectivity occupy the same realm of meaning, in terms of science and journalism? On April 24, UCSB’s Art History Graduate Student Association hosted its 40th Annual Symposium in the University Center, thi...