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February 20, 2015

Film Review: “Cerro Torre: A Snowball’s Chance in Hell” Provides Exhilarating Look at Patagonia Climbing Expedition

By Nadine Bedwan

“Follow your dreams” is an often-repeated piece of advice that most have heard, and many agree on, but how does the well-known mantra fare when said dreams top over 10,000 feet off the ground? According to David Lama...

February 20, 2015

Student Documentary Gets Selected for SBIFF: Blue Horizons Students Dive Deep with “Mussel Man”

By Audrey Bachelder

Out in the open ocean past the Santa Barbara harbor, the mussel man drives a self-designed boat at 4:30 a.m. to the harvest ropes. Using a fisherman technique rarely found in the U.S., he pulls up more than a thousand po...

February 20, 2015

Wilde’s Play Boasts Superb Characters

By Sammy Gerraty

“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me,” senior BFA Theater student Adrian Carter said during Friday’s opening night performance of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Perhaps...

February 20, 2015

Local Actors Celebrate Italian Author

By Jason Chun

The stage was a woven rug, on which stood a podium, a mic stand and a flowerpot. The backdrop was a bare color-changing screen. It was a simple arrangement, but it was enough for the performers of “Speaking of Francesc...

February 18, 2015

The Nile Project Fosters Cultural Community

By Mackenzie Hart

The Nile Basin, holding 11 countries that inhabit the land bordering the Nile River, is in trouble. Climate change has led to a dwindling Nile water supply, pitting the people of the neighboring countries against each ot...

February 18, 2015

Jazz Vocalist Cécile Salvant Gets Playful at Campbell Hall

By Devon McNaughton

One couldn’t help but smile as Cécile McLorin Salvant walked onstage at Campbell Hall Thursday night, Feb. 12. Her demeanor was so familiar and unassuming, yet commanded attention, like someone approaching a lunch tab...

February 18, 2015

Nrityagram Dance Company Brings Odissi Tradition to Campus

By Sammy Gerraty

The devastation in Surupa Sen’s face as she danced Khandita was so genuine that Lord Krishna became a palpable onstage presence. Beautifully garbed in white and gold, Sen danced as Rädhä, the lover and direct counter...

February 16, 2015

Brotherly Love at Arlington: The Avett Brothers

By Brianna Guzman

Purple lights shone down onto the stage in the stunning Arlington Theatre Tuesday, Feb. 10 as a flurry of fans eagerly waited for the Grammy-nominated band. The UCSB Arts & Lectures event was nearly sold out, and onc...

February 16, 2015

Utah Report: I Went to Sundance and It was Awesome

By Frank Horne

Every January, Hollywood descends upon (or ascends to, technically) the picturesque snow globe that is Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. Since its founding in 1978, Sundance has been a forum for independent...

February 16, 2015

Fifty Shades of Grey: Still a better love story than….actually, not really

By Alex Wehrung

Finally, it’s here. The mommy-pornographic, masturbatory, former Twilight fanfiction fantasy hit that has taken the sexually-frustrated world by storm: “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the movie. Now, to this film’s credi...

February 15, 2015

My Not so So Ordinary Eight Days as an Intern

By Brianna Guzman

The 2015 Santa Barbara Film Festival came to a close this past Sunday. With it goes the star sightings, the hip boxed water for pass holders and the influx of visitors to downtown Santa Barbara. But what exactly goes int...

February 15, 2015

Top 5 Turn-On Artists for You and Your Valentine

By Sophie Ho

College can be too intense. Other things can be more intense. So, we’d love to help turn up the heat a bit for you and your Valentine this February with our favorite seductive pop and R&B artists and songs.   ...

February 15, 2015

Directors Given Prestigious Honors at SBIFF Chazelle, Linklater, Miller, Poitras and Tyldum Reflect at Arlington

By Alex Wehrung

The Outstanding Directors of the Year tribute event was admittedly more low-key than one would imagine. While there was certainly a long line to get into the Arlington, there weren’t any screaming fans descending upon ...

February 14, 2015

5 Misheard Song Lyrics from 5 Different Genres

By Erika Lee

Valentine’s Day is considered a somewhat controversial holiday. Unlike Christmas or Halloween, holidays that generally everybody love, people either look forward to V-day or dread it completely. It’s one of the only ...

February 13, 2015

Women’s Panel Highlights Male-Dominance in Film Industry

By Nadine Bedwan

The phrase “women in show business” conjures a variety of onscreen stereotypes: the distressed damsel, the young clandestine coquette and the sensual temptress, amongst others. The cause for this can be traced off-sc...

February 13, 2015

Must-Watch Spoken Word for Every Relationship Status: Valentine’s Day Edition

By Janel Mendoza

When novelists think love, they draft words of wondrous passion onto their notebooks filled with fantasy. When slam poets talk love, sh*t gets real. These artists utter words of desperation or perhaps the complete opposi...