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April 9, 2015

Ecological Storytelling with Hayao Miyazaki

By Phi Do

Encouraging the Preservation of the Environment Through Animated Film

April 9, 2015

Gardens & Villa Play Sold-Out Show at SOhO

By Nadine Bedwan

Green lights flickered on the balcony of SOhO Restaurant and Music Club last Thursday night, glowing over a crowd in strapless dresses and opened button-downs. Inside, the hippest men and women in Santa Barbara gathered ...

April 9, 2015

Live from the Batcave: Alex Bocknek

By Alec Hartnett

Kindling the cloudy, energetic and electronic dance music scene, gloving was gifted upon this music-fueled world in a conspicuously suggestive manner. Riveting and beautifully choreographed, dancers’ fingertips began t...

April 9, 2015

ChillTopia: The Chill Before the Storm

By Eric Topp

As the chaos of Deltopia descended upon Isla Vista on Friday, April 3, an oasis of music and art sprung up in Perfect Park. The event, dubbed ChillTopia, was organized by Excursion Club and sponsored by UCSB Associated S...

April 2, 2015

Camping at Coachella: A Packing List

By Audrey Bachelder

Ahh, Coachella: those three days of magical music bonding in Indio, California where the Spicy Pie is eaten by thousands and Tupac appears from the dead, albeit by hologram. It’s the place where Beyonce graced her baby...

April 2, 2015

Talent Trade Conference Shares Industry Secrets with Aspiring Actors, Screenwriters

By Audrey Bachelder

“That Ari Gold character is tame compared to [agents in] the CAA,” said Justin Winters, a screenwriter who has been around the block when it comes to talent agencies. Winters delivered this one-liner during UCSB’s ...

April 2, 2015

Interview with CORNERS

By Artsweek Editor

Coming from Echo Park, L.A., post-punk band CORNERS talked to me after their Burgerama set last weekend about raunchy show happenings and good energy. Composed of Tracy Bryant, Rick Mabery, Billy Changer and Jeff “Jeff...

April 2, 2015

Burgerama: Weezer and Black Lips Headline Costa Mesa Fest

By Nadine Bedwan

A swarm of guys, girls and everything in between amassed in their funkiest thrift shop getups at the Observatory last weekend in Costa Mesa, California. The usually cozy venue was transformed into a three-stage rock fest...

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...