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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...

November 27, 2014

A Taste of the Past: Pink Floyd’s Final Album

By Alexandra DeSanto

“We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year/Running over the same old ground, what have we found?/The same old fears; wish you were here.” These are the legendary lyrics we have become famil...

November 27, 2014

‘No Reason’ to Put Down Giraffage’s New EP

By Nadine Bedwan

Touring with the likes of Porter Robinson, Phantogram and XXYYXX, San Francisco-based producer, Giraffage, has made quite a name for himself in the electronic music sphere over the years. He first gained widespread ackno...

November 27, 2014

Jam Band Brothers Gow Meld Together at SOhO

By Ryan Mandell

On Wednesday Nov. 19, Brothers Gow turned SOhO Restaurant and Music Club into a colorful river of sound. The psychedelic jam band from San Diego performed a menagerie of stylized songs ranging from country to deep reggae...

November 22, 2014

How To Guide: How to Get Away With a Killer TV Show

By Jessica Gresham

Close the books, take a break from the gym and treat yourself to an hour of hot law students, sex scandals, love triangles, lies and murder. You deserve it. You deserve to be swooned by hopelessly romantic Wes. You deser...

November 22, 2014

KCSB’s Compilation CD Is a Winner: Artsweek Talks to KCSB About the Goings on of Studio A

By Audrey Bachelder

“Radio is so fleeting, but at least we have this,” said KCSB general manager Yibing Guo, her hands gripping the cardboard cd case with “KCSB 91.9 Live in Studio A” stamped on it in green ink. Live in Studio A is ...

November 21, 2014

Black Scholars Hall Reviews K-pop

By Chinelo Ufondu

“K-what? Wait what did you say? Are black people even allowed to listen to that?” These were the frequent responses I got when I asked my hallmates in the black scholars hall about their knowledge of K-pop. K-pop (a...

November 20, 2014

Mac DeMarco Turns Hub into Jungle Gym: Plus the Inside Scoop on the DeMarco After Party

By Ryan Mandell

Tucked into a triangular nook of the hub’s ceiling beam, the gap-toothed indie-rocker grinned down at the crowd below him. Screaming girls and sweaty boys stretched their hands and fingertips up towards the radical act...

November 20, 2014

Juggling Cushions, Snorkels and Big Macs: Flying Karamazov Brothers Entertain Campbell

By Chinelo Ufondu

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a Karamazov! This high-flying, zany, juggling comedy-troupe graced the stage of Campbell Hall this weekend, turning the mundane lecture hall into nothing I’ve seen before. The ...