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March 16, 2015

Eat My Words: A Spoken Word Show by Kip Fulbeck’s Class

By Janel Mendoza

At about the same time you were ransacking the kitchen’s pantry and refrigerator for something tasty you could call your dinner, Kip Fulbeck’s Art 137 Class was serving up a platter more fulfilling than that chicken-...

March 16, 2015

“Grasshoppers for Grandpa” Gives an Inside Look to the History for Downtown Bar

By Brianna Guzman

The site of Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens is Santa Barbara’s last visible remnant of the Chinatown that once was. Today, the space is open for business under the name The Pickle Room. But nine years ago, the bar and resta...

March 16, 2015

Joffrey Ballet Continues to Amaze in Santa Barbara

By Sammy Gerraty

After an agonizing separation of three years, the Joffrey Ballet returned to Santa Barbara on Tuesday, March 10 to perform three pieces of recent repertoire. Founded 1956 by Robert Joffrey in New York, the company commen...

March 11, 2015

Improvability Shares Spotlight and Humor with Boston University’s Improv Group

By Erika Lee

Every Friday night, Improvability, UCSB’s premier comedy troupe, performs their show at 8 p.m. in Embarcadero Hall. Every week, they choose an entertaining theme to revolve their show around, ranging from “Harry Pott...

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...