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December 7, 2014

My Duty to Alert You About ‘A Duty to Betray’

By Nadine Bedwan

Kelly Moreno knows your brain. Prior to penning his first novel, a revenge tale entitled A Duty to Betray, Moreno led a long career in the field of psychology as a professor at both UCSB and Cal Poly SLO, amongst other u...

December 7, 2014

John Cleese Makes Laughs at Granada

By Alex Wehrung

“The thing about Fox News,” said John Cleese as he sat onstage at the Granada Theater, “is that when you bring up ‘quality programming,’ they have to go find a dictionary.” The packed theater laughed at the j...

December 7, 2014

Three Albums To Listen to on a Rainy Day

By Alexandra DeSanto

With a heavy downpour of rain hitting Santa Barbara this past week, many of you (like myself) may have understood the bad weather as the perfect opportunity to skip class and stay inside. While most people enjoyed their ...

December 7, 2014

American Horror Story Producer and UCSB Alumni Comes to Pollock

By Nadine Bedwan

Flipping through television channels often yields the same monotonous results of sitcom after sitcom, recycling the same jokes between different characters and settings. On Oct. 5, 2011, the American public was reintrodu...

December 5, 2014

Exclusive Interview with Improvability, UCSB’s Improv Comedy Group

By Erika Lee

  To all the freshmen at UCSB, if the name “Improvability” sounds familiar, there’s a high probability that you’ve seen their advertisement on The Flush. There’s also a probability that you overheard some ...

December 5, 2014

Save it for Netflix, Lacks Character Depth

By Alex Wehrung

This film is proof that movies are being split for the sake of profit as opposed to story. Don’t get me wrong, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” is not a bad movie. It’s well-acted, well-shot and neve...

December 5, 2014

“Neighbors” Editor Speaks on Fight Scenes, Catch-22s and Working with Seth Rogen

By Elena Bernick

The fraternity house, a setting all too familiar to college students, is the primary backdrop for the raunchy, high-energy and gut-busting riot that is “Neighbors.” Directed by Nicholas Stoller, the movie stars Seth ...

December 4, 2014

Five Christmas Films You Have to See

By Alex Wehrung

Thanksgiving has barely passed, but if Target is any indication, Christmas season started back in October. So, in light of the oncoming brouhaha that is crowded malls, irritating carolers and holly jolly cheer, here are ...

December 4, 2014

Tribe Ties: Creating a Colorful Community Student-Run Clothing Business Brings Tie Dye to I.V.

By Audrey Bachelder

In the early 1980s, a diehard grateful dead fan with a penchant for tie-dye shirts broke up with his girlfriend, absentmindedly noting that he wouldn’t be able to take her to the upcoming concert. Outside of his chemis...

December 4, 2014

Trash to Treasures: Local Artist David Diamant’s Recycled Art

By Bin Nguyen

In downtown Santa Barbara, beautiful artworks and murals cover building walls and fences, surrounding the areas close to the beach. There you may catch local artist David Diamant showing off his latest works. But what se...

December 4, 2014

It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas: 10 Jingles for Your Holly Jolly Soundtrack

By Jane Huson

Now that Thanksgiving is over we can guiltlessly indulge in Christmas/winter songs! “Christmas Time Is Here” by Vince Guaraldi Trio/from A Charlie Brown Christmas Sometimes we grow tired of meaningless Yuletide lyric...

December 3, 2014

Five Ways to Embrace the Art Museum Experience

By Sophie Ho

Hipster-ize the Look. Don’t be silly by walking into an art museum wearing a tee and jeans. There’ll be Ray-Bans and flower headbands galore, so here’s how to stand out. Invest in a DSLR — one of those unnecessar...

December 3, 2014

“King Lear” Sports All-Star Cast from “Game of Thrones” and “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

By Alex Wehrung

Reviewing Shakespeare is admittedly a little difficult, as it’s difficult to criticize or analyze the story without causing traumatic memories of interpreting extremely difficult texts in high school to resurface. So i...

December 2, 2014

Better at a Festival: Sound Tribe Sector 9 Didn’t Deliver the Goods at the Wiltern

By Adam De Gree

I’m a latecomer with jam bands, never having listened to the Dead or Phish as a kid. However, I’ve seen my share of funky goodness while traveling around from festival to festival over the last few years and ...

December 2, 2014

Magnets & Ghosts EP Be Born is Perfect for Winter Nights

By Kelsey Tang

With the cold this article is going up in December winds momentarily wiping out the sweet and sunny days here at UCSB, it’s time to exchange that ready-for-the-beach playlist for something a tad more pensive and dark. ...

December 2, 2014

More Rock than Sand: Foster the People Play SB Bowl

By Spencer Phillips

After superb opening acts by Soko (“We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow”) and Sylvan Esso (“Coffee”), Foster the People’s last show of their North American tour was set to be a blast. Held at the Santa Barbara Bowl, t...