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March 11, 2015

Nick Frost: Conversation with a Zombie Slayer, Alien Fighter and Bad-Ass Cop

By Alex Wehrung

If you’ve been asked who Nick Frost is, chances are you’ve shook your head in confusion before being told, “You know, the fat guy from ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz?’” Suddenly, your eyes light up as ...

March 10, 2015

IVFF’s “March Into Spring” Event Brings Local Talent to Perfect Park

By Janel Mendoza

With spring just around the corner, the refreshing sights and melodious tunes that come with the season inspired Isla Vista First Fridays: March into Spring on Friday, March 6. In I.V.’s Perfect Park, miniature lights ...

March 10, 2015

MCC’s An Evening of Self Expression Encourages Poetic Catharsis

By Janel Mendoza

It’s not recommended to eat sweets before bed but for last Thursday’s open-mic, an exception could surely be made. Turning its seating area into a poetic foreground with the smell of red velvet cupcakes and vanilla l...

March 7, 2015

Shirley Jo Finney and UCSB students bring In the Red and Brown Water to Life

By Sammy Gerraty

“In the Red and Brown Water,” directed by Shirley Jo Finney, opened this past weekend in the Hatlen Theater. The play is chronologically the first of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ”Brother/Sister Plays,” though it fo...

March 5, 2015

Live at the Batcave: The Crash Landings

By Alex Bocknek

Meet The Crash Landings. This local Isla Vista punk collaborative exists for one purpose — to fight the infestation of ska and reggae with high-pitched shrieks, disorganized anger, mosh pits, songs about rioting, ear-p...

March 5, 2015

“Top Model’s” Miss J Sashays into RCSGD’s Fashion Show

By Bin Nguyen

A unison choir of “yassssssss” burst from the audience in Corwin Pavilion last Thursday, Feb. 26, when a tall, dark and powerful figure appeared on the runway. The famous legs strutted down the catwalk wearing a blac...

March 5, 2015

Interview with Progressive EDM Artist Slow Magic

By Carissa Quiambao

Last Thursday’s pop-up concert series, Pop-Off, by RedEye Presents brought masked musical mastermind Slow Magic to the stage. The progressive electronic music artist is known for his dreamy and celestial sound, his phe...

March 5, 2015

Giraffage Plays Rollercoaster of Feels

By Alex Bocknek

On the backmost corner table of the decidedly vacant and dimly lit VIP section of Santa Barbara’s EOS Lounge sat a deadly concoction of Jameson, ginger beer and an extra dash of Canada Dry. The owner of the drink, Char...

March 5, 2015

Lemony Snicket Delivers Talk at Campbell

By Nadine Bedwan

In San Francisco in 1980, Daniel Handler was a 10 year-old boy with a voracious appetite and fervent passion for literature. He can still hear the thuds of disfavored books as he threw them, unimpressed, against the wall...

March 5, 2015

Grammy-Winning Jazz Singer Cassandra Wilson Comes to UCSB

By Jessica Gresham

On Sunday, Feb. 22, Campbell Hall celebrated the music of Billie Holiday with the vocals of jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. The auditorium was filled with jazz enthusiasts of all ages, eager to hear the sultry sounds of th...

March 5, 2015

The Taboo Reimagined: Eric Beltz and The Cave of Treasures

By Jason Chun

It was hard to miss the poison oak plant sitting in the middle of The Cave of Treasures, but some of the other elements associated with danger in the installation were subtler. The Cave of Treasures, a work of UCSB alumn...

March 5, 2015

BSU Presents Black Hxstory Month Block Party

By Janel Mendoza

March 3, 2015

Gorgon City or (The Unexpected Virtue of Venue)

By Artsweek Editor

As John Legend and Common (aka John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn) accepted their Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, I threw on a jacket and headed over to The Hub to catch Gorgon City, a pair of London DJs. I wasn’t very familiar ...

March 3, 2015

The Vaginas are Coming: Vagina Monologues and HerStories to Hit Campus

By Sammy Gerraty

From an impressive number of synonyms to a Bermuda Triangle analogy, UCSB’s “The Vagina Monologues and Herstories 2015” covers the vagina in no uncertain terms. Whether you’ve wondered what The Talk was like for ...

March 3, 2015

Casual Gets Cool: Folk Pop Band Wild Child Shines On. Wild Child Graces SOhO with Texas Hospitality

By Audrey Bachelder

A blond gal stood on the SOhO stage in leggings and a heather gray zip-up hoodie, doling out turquoise paint on the cheeks of giddy girls. “You, you’re next,” she said, moving from lady to lady until at least 40 Wi...

March 3, 2015

Then I Won’t Seem So Far Away: UCSB Alumna Writes Memoir on Studying Abroad in Europe and Life in Isla Vista during the ‘70s

By Erika Lee

If you took our beloved UCSB campus and quaint Isla Vista town back to 40 years ago, could you imagine what it would be like? In her new memoir, Then I Won’t Seem So Far Away, Peggy O’ Toole, an alumna of UCSB and lo...