Music
Usually, it’s too cold to function if the weather is anything less than 60 degrees in Santa Barbara. But, in spite of Friday, Feb. 27’s chilling temperature, more than 200 people came out to I.V....
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As John Legend and Common (aka John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn) accepted their Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 22, I threw on a jacket and headed over to The Hub to catch Gorgon City, a pair of London DJs. I was...
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A blond gal stood on the SOhO stage in leggings and a heather gray zip-up hoodie, doling out turquoise paint on the cheeks of giddy girls. “You, you’re next,” she said, moving from lady to lady ...
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Put the books down and click ‘Not Going’ to any and all events you are RSVP’d to in Isla Vista this Friday. Hot off the heels of his new EP, No Reason, and Porter Robinson’s Worlds tour, cotto...
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Johnny Cash’s infamous middle-finger photo covered the wall of Velvet Jones, alongside other posters of historical performances. On Friday, Feb. 13, another show went down in history at the esteemed...
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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 count...
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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 app...
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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 near...
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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 artist...
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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...
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The crowd silenced as the four beaming, salt-and-pepper-haired string players strode across the stage toward their spotlight in matching black and white suits. On Feb. 7, young and old gathered for an...
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Squeezing my way into a crowd of sweaty college students and post-adolescents, I was captivated by the tall silhouette that appeared on the stage of the completely sold-out Velvet Jones. With people s...
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A hooded woman clad from head to toe in jet black “ǂ₩0ИK” gear stood in stark contrast against the perspiring orange walls of the bathroom hallway. Her bandana bounced onto the oversized hoodi...
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The crowd gathered as close as security allowed when John Kay, rhythm guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter for Steppenwolf, took the stage on Friday night at SOhO Restaurant & Music Club bef...
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Sitting at the edge of the Granada theater stage, the godmother of punk rock shook her silver hair out before jumping down, landing with a feathery thud into the thin carpet. A collective gasp came fr...
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A werewolf who definitely howled mid make-out
A performative male dressed as Tyler Durden
The mime that somehow made it hot and cool
The ghost of your situationship (no, it’s actually them)
Frat vampire, and your neck will be bleeding
The angel that has definitely never gone out
The literal devil
A prisoner with fake tattoos that you can pretend are real for the night
A sexy cowboy that definitely used the ride line at least four times
A Patrick Bateman who relates a little too much
The witch who asked for your zodiac sign first
A nurse who will leave you needing CPR
