Artsweek

May 22, 2015

Urban Dance Company Holds Swaggy Dance Showcase

By Margarita Danielyants

On Saturday, May 9th, Urban Dance Company hosted their first annual showcase in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, where the company, along with several guest groups, delivered some swaggy hip hop dances. The showcase was dedic...

May 22, 2015

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

By Phi Do

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 academic research disciple...

May 22, 2015

What is Water: A Review and Discussion of “Chinatown” (1974)

By Phi Do

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 starring Jack Nichol...

May 21, 2015

Robert T. Johnson Senior Recital

By Sammy Gerraty

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 “intermission” written in cha...

May 21, 2015

‘Bloody Poetry:’ Punk, Poetry and Eccentricity

By Alex Wehrung, Jason Chun

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 George Byron and Clair...

May 21, 2015

Extravaganza 2015

By Ryan Mandell

AS Program Board Curates Next Installation in Annual UCSB Festival

May 21, 2015

‘Mad Max’: Burning Man meets the Blues Brothers in Fury Road

By Alex Wehrung

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 “Mad Max” movie...

May 19, 2015

Get Hyphy with E-40: UCSB Gets a Taste of Yay Area

By Bin Nguyen

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 language and jargon of t...

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...